The Thunderbird, 30 Year Anniversary 1976 Fall-Winter

IIA LOOK BACKWARDII
AND
IIA LOOK FORWARDII
G. Clarke Bean
The words "vision" and "foresight" are often used too
freely, but I honestly feel that Major General Barton K.
Yount had an exceptionally acute view of the future
when he decided that international trade would become
such a major part of our lives and founded what was
then the American Institute for Foreign Trade in 1946.
I first became aware of the School when I came to
Phoenix in 1947 in search of employment, having de­cided
to leave the New York area because of my health.
Among several letters of introduction, I had one to Finley
Peter Dunn, Jr. at the School.
The following year, my brother, John Bean, having re­cently
graduated from Amherst after a stint in the service
during World War II, enrolled as a student in the School's
second year. So, you can see I have been acquainted with
Thunderbird for quite a long time, although my active
involvement on the board started in 1972.
I trust and believe that General Yount would be thrilled
by the School's present strength and reputation. Its stature
throughout the United States and the world is unques­tioned,
and its unique character, which combines prag­matism
with expertise, places it alone among accredited
graduate schools of management.
The board and the administration have recently been
working hard on reviewing the makeup and organization
of the board so that it may be of greatest support and
strength to the future of the School. We are delighted
that one of its highest priorities will be an upgrading of
the physical plant as well as continued improvement of
the academic level. Construction will start soon on dor­mitories,
signaling the beginning of a major move for­ward
for the American Graduate School of International
Management.
Your board is dedicated to quality in the caliber of the
student body, the faculty and the administration . Most of
all, we are concerned with the caliber of our product­the
education which our graduates have received. We are
proud of our record in the past, but we think it can be
improved in the future. Your support as alumni will be a
major factor in reaching these goals.
G. CLARKE BEAN
THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni publication of the American Graduate School of Interna­tional
Management) is published in the Fall-Winter and Spring-Summer of each year.
Editor: DIANE CONNELLY '56
Chief Photographer: NOEL FORD
Assistant Editor: CHRIS GORSLINE
Alumni (Office) Assistant: THOMAS J. BEATTY '77
Cover: Thunderbird Invitational Balloon Race, November 20-21, 1976
NOEL FORD CHRIS GORSLINE THOMAS J. BEATTY '77 DIANE CONNELLY '56
The
Presiden~' 5
We are celebrating our thirtieth year and, frankly, there's
a lot to celebrate. Since 1946 we have graduated over
10,000 students who are now performing ably in over
100 countries around the globe. The School continues to
operate in the black, which is quite a feat for a small,
private school in Arizona which started with a deactivated
Air Force base and borrowed funds.
As we look ahead we have two major goals. First of all,
we want to translate the ever-increasing inquiries and
applications into tighter admission standards. We want a
small (750), highly selective, private graduate school. We
are getting close to it. We now require a 3.0 or B average
for admission and require all applicants to take the
Graduate Management Admission Test. We want a mix of
25% foreign students, 20% women, and experienced,
more mature Americans.
Message
Secondly, we want to rebuild the campus starting with
new residence halls, a new classroom auditorium com­plex,
and faculty offices. We're starting two new resi­dence
halls this year. We want to retain the southwestern
architecture and casual informality.
We are making great strides in achieving both of these
major long-range goals.
WilLIAM VORIS
President
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LETTERS
IITERIATIDIAL
MAIAGEMEIT
Commemorating thirty years of our school's existence,
this THUNDERBIRD is "A Look Backward - A Look For­ward"
issue. I requested statements from key adminis­trators
as to where they see us now as an institution as
compared with where we have been.
G. Clarke Bean, Chairman of the Board of Directors, offers
an overview; William Voris, President of AGSIM, adds
specifics; Robert L. Gulick gives Admissions' viewpoint;
M. David Merchant writes of plans, grants and the Thun­derbird
Fund for Development and Public Affairs; Aca­demic
Dean Marshall Geer III states our academic philos­ophy;
Robert J. McMahon spells out World Business'
plans to strengthen that department's offerings; Jorge
Valdevieso and Frank R. Jackie explain the unique back­ground
of our Modern Languages Department; Joaquin
M. Duarte, Jr. acknowledges the brilliant professors who
have comprised the International Studies Department.
As a change of pace, alumnus-in-residence Tom Beatty
examines AGSIM's assistantship program and gives his
insight on being the Alumni Office's "own."
The list of Alumni Resource Persons, ready and willing to
help you world-wide, continues to grow.
Alumni associations continue to expand and strengthen,
offering fellowship and service. They consider how to
spread our name - to prospective outstanding students
(Mexico's specialty) and to internationally oriented com­panies
(Los Angeles and New York). They concern them­selves
with finding jobs for fellow Thunderbirds (Houston
and San Francisco). They seek to develop AGSIM's pro­fessional
continued education programs for their mem­bers
and friends (Arizona). They offer a friendly and
helpful peer group far from "home" (Tokyo and Tehran).
Support your School's goals and enjoy other T-Birds
wherever you may be. Check the association contact
name nearest you and contact this person. Or write me
how to establish an association where you are now.
See the return envelope for special offer through your
Alumni Office:
"TWIPs" are in - to Switzerland and Mexico at special
alumni rates.
The price on our beautiful Thunderbird ring is at an
all-time low.
You can buy a newly-designed diploma for $5 from
from Admissions and Records.
Alumni-in-Residence offer you a free first issue of
Thunderbird Research International.
Please write me if there is any specific way this office
can serve you or any statement you would like to make
about Thunderbird. Plaudit or brickbat, I'll pass it on.
Our common goal is the improvement of our School.
DIANE CONNELLY
Editor
IITERIATIDIAL
MAIAGEMEIT
T-Bird graduates' worlds of work are becoming as diverse as
the graduates themselves. As winner of a competitive essay
contest sponsored by the Circumnavigators, an organization
comprised of distinguished international travelers, student
ELEANOR HAMRIC '76 was awarded a trip around the world.
Since her graduation last May, Eleanor has been researching
her winning essay topic, "The Role of Women in The World
Today," by interviewing women in many countries.
Just thought I'd drop you a line during my voyage! I was
the guest of PHIL BLAISDELL 70 in his beautiful Repulse
Bay apartment in Hong Kong. We had never met before,
but in true T-Bird style he offered me his home and
friends during my stay there!
So far, my trip has taken me to Japan, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and Singapore, where I was the guest of KEITH
BOVETTI 75 and his lovely Japanese wife, Kyoko. We
all agreed that T-Bird was one of the great experiences
of our lives, and Phil and I (maybe) have talked two
up-and-coming retirees to lecture at school!
Diane, I can't tell you how great it is to be traveling
alone around the world and arrive in an unknown place,
whip out my T-Bird address list, and have an "instant"
colleague and most probably friend to welcome me.
From Singapore I sailed to Bali on a short 5-day cruise,
and spent a week in Bali. Then on to Bangkok and Cal­cutta
and Katmandu and Calcutta and Delhi. From India
I go on to Istanbul, and then into USSR for two weeks!!
I come out in Scandinavia, "Iightly" across Europe, and
back into the USA by Christmas.
I have been most fortunate in my research project­through
the SOROPTIMIST CLUBS in Japan (a lady named
Dottie Kissinger is the President!); YWCA in Taipei; per­sonal
contacts in Hong Kong; a women's leader in Singa­pore.
While it's too early to draw any general or specific
conclusions yet, I can assure you that the women in Asia
are positive and very well organized. It is a movement
that is generally for the educated elite, but seems to be
starting off in each country at a good grass-roots level.
They are practical and determined and to-the-point, and
seem to be making great strides.
All the best to you and T-Bird.
Ciao,
ELEANOR HAMRIC 76
Thirty Years And Now?
As Mabel and I stroll across the campus these days, I'm
reminded of the first time I saw the campus on July 5,
1946. As we approached the campus on that occasion,
after having traveled for what seemed miles through
uninhabited desert, we spotted four hangars rising from
the desert floor surrounded by a group of dusty, cob­webbed,
one-story buildings. The landscaping, what
there was of it, appeared parched and unattended. The
grass was knee high and bone dry. This was to be the
birthplace of one of the most incredible ideas in higher
education.
Today, by contrast, the campus looks manicured. Many
of the old buildings are still used, but they are sur­rounded
by new structures, particularly in the area sur­rounding
the facultly building (control tower). The first
of these, built in 1965, is a residence hall for fifty mar­ried
couples. (Yes, we decided it was time to move the
married couples out from the center of the campus, from
the center of our single men's housing area .) This build­ing,
made possible by a loan from the Valley Bank, is
called East Apartments.
The second building in this area is the new Library built
in 1970 at a cost of $500,000, all gifts and grants from
members of the Board of Directors with help from the
AMA and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The
funds for this project were pledged and all paid within a
period of 18 months. Built to provide 15,000 square feet
of space for library purposes, this was deemed larger
than necessary at that time, and 5,000 square feet, one­third
of the building, was sealed off to provide for the
needs of our placement and alumni functions. Today the
library badly needs that additional 5,000 square feet.
Satisfying this need is currently our number one priority,
and plans are in the making to make it possible to move
these two functions to new quarters.
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The last building in this area is another residence com­plex
for 50 married students or 100 single students. This
project was made possible by a direct loan from the
Federal Government for $374,000 at 3% interest and a
term of 40 years. This complex of four two-story build­ings
grouped around a central court and named West
Apartments, is currently our best housing facility and is
located directly across the road from Apartment 8 in the
Hangar Leanto.
Apartment 8, by the way, is where the Ericksons lived
for 18 years before moving to the south end of the
campus into our faculty housing complex. This faculty
housing area, sometimes referred to as the "high rent
district," is composed of 12 individual homes of 4, 3, 2,
and 1-bedroom variations. These homes were bui It with
the proceeds from mortgages obtained on each individual
home - nine of them in 1964 and three in 1970 - and
all are self-liquidating from the proceeds of the rental
income.
They have served admirably as housing for a portion of
the faculty, particularly as interim housing, until new
faculty are able to find permanent homes in the sur­rounding
community.
All of the building projects are tied together by a paving
project which extends from West Apartments on the
south clear across the campus.
Ironically, this was one of the most dramatic improve­ments
achieved in this area of dusty and pot-holed land­scape.
The smooth pavement was an immense improve­ment.
Not an insignificant project, this was accomplished
with a grant from U.S. Steel and with labor and materials
furnished at cost by a local contractor.
Proceeding around the campus in a counter clockwise
fash ion, the next improvement involves what was for
many years the library, has been converted into a small,
but modern, bookstore. With a drop ceiling, recessed
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lights, carpeting on the floor and custom built shelving,
this serves admirably today as the bookstore. In addition
to the standard text books, it provides a variety of other
books, magazines, and other accessory items, all attract­ively
displayed: Adjacent to the bookstore is the post
office with individual boxes for each student. Also, lo­cated
off the post office lobby is an attractive, well­lighted
barbershop. The west end of this building houses
the student activities center with individual offices for
the A.S.L.c. as well as Legal Aid, International Students
Organization, Student Newspaper DAS TOR and other
student organizations.
Passing along the campus fringes, the next building we
come to is the Dining Hall and Student Lounge/Coffee
Shop. These improvements, made with funds provided
through our alumni fund-raising efforts, have been cov­ered
in previous editions of The Thunderbird. However, I
would be remiss in not once again expressing our appre­ciation
for making these improvements possible, in partic­ular,
the Coffee Shop and Student Lounge, which with its
additions of a drop ceiling, oak-paneled walls, new tile
on the floor, recessed lights and, of course, refrigeration
has transformed what was a dark sort of dingy facility
into an attractive, well-lit, comfortable room. So much so,
that it is increasingly difficult to provide necessary seat­ing
for all of our customers.
Next to the Coffee Shop is our Auditorium, refurbished
from years ago with a grant from the Spencer T. and
Ann W. Olin Foundation. Here, again, an old building
has been converted into an attractive room with a drop
ceiling, recessed lights, sound-proofing paneling on the
walls and carpeting on the floor . Refrigeration has also
been provided to make the room comfortable during our
summer sessions, not to mention hot spring and early
fall sessions.
I often wonder, as I sit in this room, how Bill Schurz (Dr.
William Schurz) would have fared in these surroundings,
remembering the difficulty we experienced in trying to
soundproof the room and to provide for adequate sound.
Bill Schurz, as I recall, had a particular disdain for micro­phones
and the like and refused to have anything to do
with audio equipment.
Continuing around the campus, our next improvement is
the front entrance. Prior to the improvement, a visitor's
first view of Thunderbird Campus was a dusty, pot-holed
parking lot leading to a large wooden gate flanked by a
standard military installation-type gate house. A visitor's
impressions of Thunderbird Campus were inevitably in­fluenced
by this first view as he turned in off of 59th
Avenue. This eyesore has been completely erased with
the help of a grant from the Ann Payne Foundation. A
new paved entrance road has been provided with the
entrance and exit drive divided by an attractive island,
landscaped with shrubbery and flowers. South of this
improvement is a concrete sign with an attractive Thun­derbird
at one end. Across the white face of the sign is
the name of the School in bold letters. The gate and gate
house have been removed, and the area adjacent to the
entrance drive has been enhanced with desert land­scaping.
In the little park adjacent to the drive, a small chapel
was erected several years ago with a grant from Mr. and
Mrs. A. P. Tell. The chapel, inspired by student religious
groups on the campus, serves as a place where the New-man
Club and other students can hold meetings.
The last improvement of any size was accomplished this
summer with the remodeling of our "C" Building (C
Dormitory) into a faculty office building for the Interna­tional
Studies faculty. With a drop ceiling, recessed lights,
and tile floors, individual offices were provided for an
expanded I. S. faculty . Included in the improvement was
a conference room and two seminar rooms. Some of you
who remember C-l as the unofficial Campus Pub will
be interested to know that it now is the office for the
Chairman of the International Studies Department, Pro­fessor
Joaquin Duarte.
In retrospect, a great many improvements have been
made - all in the last six or eight years, and almost all
accomplished with the help of gifts and grants by alumni
and friends of the School. None of these projects would
have been possible without such help, and we are grate­ful,
one and all.
But, the best is yet to come. Ground will be broken on
November 1 for two new residence halls. Architectural
drawings are complete, and bids have been called for.
Anticipated cost of these two buildings is $450,000 in­cluding
a necessa ry endowment to provide for mainte­nance.
Funds are on hand for this project. Hopefully,
funds can be found to build two more residence halls in
the very near future.
Working drawings have also been completed for a
Classroom-Auditorium complex. Funds for this project are
included in the Confidence Fund. Hopefully, funds for
this project will be available in the near future. This
complex would provide an auditorium seating 1,000
persons and additionally seven classrooms, each with a
seating capacity between 50 and 70 students.
Hopefully, our development program, with Thunderbird
Fund under the leadership of Joe Klein, class of '47, and
the Confidence Fund under the leadership of Mr. James
Thornton, a member of the Board of Trustees, will make
these and other badly needed projects possible.
Professional Publication
A new project has been initiated by the student body to
bring attention to the unique type of research at AGSIM.
The Thunderbird International will be published this fall,
highlighting topics in international business through re­search
papers, faculty interviews and book reviews.
The publication will be funded by the ASLC and has an
editorial board composed of seven students and two
faculty advisors, Dr. Karl Magyar and Dr. James Mills.
The journal is to be an example of the pragmatic manager
and his training at AGSIM. It is felt that the material in
the journal can be used as guidelines for international
managers in understanding the foreign environment their
business is located.
All three departments of World Business, International
Studies and Modern Languages will contribute to the
Thunderbird International. At least one article will be
printed in a foreign langu3ge with an English translation
alongside. Alumni are invited to submit recent papers
written at AGSIM or material written subsequent to grad­uation
. Please send contributions and ideas to The Thun­derbird
International, ASLC. The journal will be as much
a student publication as an alumni one.
Alumni interested in receiving copies of the first issue,
which will be free, should send a note to the Alumni
Office,
ADMISSIONS AND RECORDS
Dr. Gulick, Dean of Admissions
Variety is the spice of life at Thunderbird . The School is
taking the 982 Fall enrollment in stride, placing three
faculty advisers at the disposal of every student. The
curriculum has been enriched by the inclusion of Cross­Cultural
Communication and Arabic, among other new
offerings.
New Diploma Style
For some time, dissatisfaction had been expressed about
the size and composition of the style used for our di­plomas
and certificates. However, no constructive action
or suggestions were offered to improve the situation
until one of the graduating students of the Fall 1975
class, Vernon Hatch, took the initiative to approach the
Administration for cooperation in organizing a student
election on the issue.
In the ensuing selection process, sixty-one percent of
the student body analyzed eight different diploma styles
and sizes and expressed a consensus. Another student,
Richard Bram, who is experienced in colligraphy, drafted
the style and composition which seemed to reflect both
the students' choice and the requirements of the Admin­istration.
The result is the improved, more legible 8Y2" x
11" diploma which is illustrated.
Alumni wishing to reorder their diplomas or certifications
in this new style can do so by sending their orders to
Miss Minerva Maki, Office of Admissions and Records,
together with a fee of $5.00. Orders will be consolidated
and processed in groups of about fifty. Delivery is esti­mated
at from four to six weeks.
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Dr. John E. Drake is back as Professor of World Business
after spending two years at the American University in
Cairo on a Ford Foundation Grant.
An updating article on the School was placed in the Con­gressional
Record, July 20, 1976, by Senator Barry Gold­water.
Women now comprise 23% of the student body as com­pared
with 18% in fall 1975 and 13% in fall 1974. Inter­national
students numbering 182 come from 52 countries.
Dr. Gulick, Dean of Admissions and Foreign Student Ad­viser,
is Chairman of the Admissions Section of the Na­tional
Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Region II.
The regional meeting will be held this year at the Uni­versity
of Colorado, Boulder, November 4-6.
The attributes that most students have in common are
imagination and a spirit of adventure. They are able to
dream dreams while keeping their feet on the ground.
In August, Mr. John James Arthur, Registrar and College
Relations Officer, went with Mr. Charles Mannel, Place­ment
Director, to the Rocky Mountain College Placement
Association Meeting in Colorado; and, in September, they
attended the Midwest College Placement Association
Meeting in Milwaukee. In November, Mr. Arthur will
participate in a Graduate Management Admission Fair in
New York City, to be followed by a circuit of campus
visits in New York State. He will attend a similar fair in
Los Angeles in December. In October, Dr. Gulick will
visit five campuses in the Central Valley of California. In
November, he and Dr. Issa Peters, Associate Professor of
Arabic and Middle East Studies, will go to Los Angeles to
participate in the convention of the Middle East Studies
Association.
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DEVELOPMENT AND
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Introduction
From the 30th anniversary of its founding forward, the
American Graduate School of International Management
seeks to systematically, progressively and substantially,
increase its financial resources from the private sector.
Increasing operational needs; physical plant moderniza­tion,
replacement and additions; and endowment for fu­ture
financial stability require planning for the mobiliza­tion
of all possible resources including friends, alumni,
parents and families, businesses, foundations, organiza­tions
and associations.
To these ends:
-the composition, organization, and function of the
governing board has been redesigned;
-an International Board of Fellows will be formed as
an advisory and advocacy arm of the governing
board;
-an office of development and public affairs has been
created and David Merchant appOinted as Director of
Development and Public Affairs;
-Thunderbird News, a frequent institutional newslet­ter,
reports on people, programs, progress and
events to all constituencies. The first issue was sent
to alumni and friends in the United States in July.
Although high postage costs preclude mailing Thun­derbird
News overseas at this time, we hope in­creased
annual income will make such mailings pos­sible
in the future.
-The Thunderbird Fund, an annual fund-raising vehicle
for individual contributions, has been created under
the International Chairmanship of Joseph M. Klein,
'47, Executive Vice President, Cyprus Mines, Los
Angeles, and member of the School's governing
board;
-efforts to obtain increased corporate, government and
foundation support have been undertaken;
-a long-range planning process has been created;
-a campus master plan has been created;
-the governing board development committee and
the Development Office are working on long-range
capital fund, bequest/estate plan programs, as well
as those for business firm associates, and foundations
for student, faculty, and financial stability plans.
To achieve much of the above, volunteers - alumni and
friends - will be mobilized for leadership assistance to
multiply the productive capacity of officers and staff.
Grants for 1975-76
Gifts and grants from individuals, corporations, founda­tions
and government to Thunderbird totaled $571 ,774
in fiscal year 1975-76. This is $170,000 more than in FY
1974-75 and $210,000 more than 1973-74. We are deep­ly
grateful to those who provided this much-needed sup­port.
Even with a record year under our belts, however,
we have a long way to go to bring contributions to
needed levels. Contributions of $297,169 toward the
operating budget provided only seven per cent of total
income in 1975-76 while endowment accounted for one
per cent and tuition and fees provided the remaining 92
per cent. This represents an unhealthy situation which
leaves AGSIM particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of
the economy and places a heavy burden on the student
body. Through THE THUNDERBIRD FUND and the School's
annual corporate support program we hope to increase
annual contributions and thus to ease the burden on the
students and provide for the continued enrichment of the
academic program. Funds are also being sought for en­dowment
to provide guaranteed annual income.
Following is a comparison of contributions over the past
three years:
1975-76
Operating
Contributions ............ $297, 169
Special Purpose
Contributions ............ 274,605
Total Contributions ........ $571,774
1974-75
$262,871
138,769
$401,640
1973-74
$256,349
105,475
$361,824
Special purpose contributions include gifts designated for
nonbudgeted items and for capital purposes such as
endowment and new construction. Of the $275,000 in
special purpose contributions in 1975-76 over half is
earmarked for construction of new residence halls. Con­struction
work on the first new residence hall is tenta­tively
planned for November, 1976.
The Thunderbird Fund Inaugurated as
AGSIM's First Annual Giving Program
By now readers of THE THUNDERBIRD will have received
the announcement of the establishment of THE THUNDER­BIRD
FUND and a letter urging personal financial support
of the American Graduate School through the Fund .
This article serves to summarize and describe this new
program with a hoped-for result of encouraging increased
support.
WHAT IS THE THUNDERBIRD FUND?
In June 1976 G. Clarke Bean, Chairman of the Board,
announced the creation of THE THUNDERBIRD FUND as
the first formal annual support program in the School's
history. THE THUNDERBIRD FUND inaugurated in the
thirtieth anniversary year of AGSIM's founding seeks to
recognize and encourage recurring annual support from
all alumni, trustees, parents and other friends of Thun­derbird.
Gifts to THE THUNDERBIRD FUND will be used to help
defray the School's annual budgeted operating expenses.
Thunderbird has urgent and continuing needs which can­not
be met from tuition or sporadic gifts and grants alone.
These needs include student fellowsh ips, increased library
acquisitions, faculty development funds, program devel­opment
funds, teaching equipment and other operational
needs. Currently 92% of this money is being supplied by
tuition and fees from students. THE THUNDERBIRD FUND
seeks primarily UNRESTRICTED, UNDESIGNATED funds
for both budgeted needs and many items needed but not
budgeted. In special cases where the donor wishes, gift
restrictions or designations may be made provided the
gift is for an operational rather than a capital expense.
WHAT THE THUNDERBIRD FUND IS NOT
THE THUNDERBIRD FUND does not seek support from
corporations except as matching gifts, nor does it seek
support for endowment or new buildings. Separate pro­grams
exist to encourage annual corporate support and
capital gifts for endowment and construction.
M. David Merchant
Director of Development and Public Affairs
HOW IS THE THUNDERBIRD FUND ORGANIZED?
Solicitation for support of AGSIM through THE THUNDER­BIRD
FUND is being carried out simultaneously on various
levels using different volunteer and staff structures.
FIRST. Joseph M. Klein, '47, executive vice president of
Cyprus Mines, has accepted the position of International
Chairman.
SECOND. Regional committees of Thunderbird Alumni
have been formed in cities of high alumni concentration
around the world. These committees will cultivate sup­port
at the Founder's Club ($130-$999), International As­sociate
($1,000 - $4,999) and Executive Club ($5,000-
$24,999) levels.
A Southern California Committee of THE THUNDERBIRD
FUND has been established under the Chairmanship of
Anthony T. Lodico, '49, former president and chief exec­utive
officer of Cardio Dynamics International. Members
of the Southern California Committee include Glenn A.
Beck, '56; Jack Butefish, '56; Ralph C. Harpham, '49;
Willis T. Johnson, '54; and Ernest H. Olsen, '47. A com­mittee
has also been established in Washington, D.C. with
Stephen M. Conger, '50, director, Industrial Systems Staff,
U.S. Department of Commerce, and James P. Monaghan,
'54, Washington representative of Alcan Aluminum Cor­poration,
serving as co-chairman. Other members of the
Washington, D.C. Committee include Frederick S. Ander­son,
'54; Herbert H. Lindstrom, '47; and Marshall C.
Miller, '50. In addition, meetings have been held in
Tokyo, Chicago and Mexico City to discuss the Fund and
begin planning for establishment of regional committee
structures in these cities.
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THIRD. Constituent group committees consisting of par­ents
of students, graduates of The Key Managers Program
and other friends of the School are being formed to
solicit also at the International Associates and Executive
Club levels.
Howard P. Keefe, a graduate of the Key Man Program in
Spanish in 1961 and an executive with Arthur Andersen
& Company, has agreed to serve as Chairman of The Key
Manager Committee of THE THUNDERBIRD FUND.
FOURTH. Mass mailings to all constituents are being sent
urging support at all gift levels.
FIFTH. A national Phonothon is being organized utilizing
students from the American Graduate School of Interna­tional
Management.
SIXTH. Gift clubs nave been established to encourage
support at higher levels. The Gift Clubs are:
Patrons - those who give $25,000 or more annually.
Executive Club - those who give from $5,000 to
$24,999 annually.
International Associates - those who give from $1,000
to $4,999 annually.
Founder's Club - those who give $100 plus $1 for
each year of age of the School (for 1976, $130, for
1977, $131, etc.) and multiple units up to $999.
NEED
The costs of higher education, like everything else, have
risen dramatically over the past five years. Since 1970,
costs at AGSIM have increased by 73.2 per cent or an
average of 14.6 per cent per year. During this period
Thunderbird has been able to meet these increased costs
only by increasing both enrollment and tuition.
The fact that AGSIM has managed to maintain a balanced
budget during this period of rapidly rising costs is due in
great part to sound management. This success, however,
has not come without sacrifices in our academic program.
For example, in 1975 student aid amounted to only
$85,000 for a student body of 750; library acquisitions,
so important to a graduate school, have not been able to
keep pace with expanded needs; and, curriculum enrich­ment,
including the addition of new courses, has been
dependent on special grants from corporations and foun­dations.
Even with a further increase in tuition we are now at the
point where annual operating income must come to an
ever-greater degree from contributions. THE THUNDER·
BIRD FUND seeks to provide a significant portion of this
needed income.
For those who have already contributed to THE THUN­DERBIRD
FUND in 1976 we offer our heartfelt thanks. If
you have not yet contributed, please consider a gift.
Thunderbird needs and deserves your support.
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Dean Marshall Gear III, Public Afflirs
The goal of the American Graduate School of International
Management continues to be the education of men and
women to prepare them to assume managerial roles in
the increasingly complex world of international business
and government. The size and quality of our current stu­dent
population, the increasing number of applications,
and our well-deserved reputation in the international
business community demonstrate our historical success in
achieving this goal.
The school, now as in the past, must constantly assess the
adequacy of its ability to carry out its mission in light of
the ever-changing characteristics of the complex markets
to which our graduates are attracted. While the school
will never make changes in its program simply for the
sake of change, neither may it rest on its laurels, main­taining
the status quo simply because "that's the way
we've always done it."
AGSIM believes that the best method to achieve its goal
is to be a small, high-quality graduate institution special­izing
in international management programs. Our success
will depend upon our ability to attract high-caliber, highly
motivated students from both the United States and
abroad. In turn, our ability to attract these students will
depend both upon our ability to attract and retain high­quality
faculty and upon the continued improvement of
our curriculum to meet the challenges of the future.
The future is challenging and in some aspects trouble­some
for the school. The role of the multinational corpo­ration,
and hence of our graduates, is being seriously
questioned in many quarters. At the same time, many
business schools across the United States, usually with a
far greater base of financial support than AGSIM, are
offering competing programs and degrees in interna­tional
business. Through a continuing process of critical
self-evaluation, we will respond to these challenges, but
we will need the continued strong support of our con­stituency
to succeed.
The 40's
The 50's
The 60's
The 70',
MODERN LANGUAGES
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
When General Barton Kyle Yount, at the end of World
War II, conceived of a college to train Americans to serve
effectively as American business representatives abroad,
he emphasized training in three areas: practical ability in
a modern language, a deep knowledge of foreign cul­tures
and customs, and a practical and theoretical ex­pertise
in the techniques of international management.
Learning a "Living Language"
To set up a practical, modern language program where
the stress would be on gaining a firm ability to speak
with and understand foreign nationals, he chose Dr.
Marjorie C. Johnston, who was recognized as one of the
leaders in the changing language methodology. Dr. John­ston
used national instructors, organized small conversa­tional
classes that stressed the audio-ling"ual approach,
and divided the training into conversation classes, gram­mar
classes and the new laboratory instruction. The re­sults
were good, a great improvement over the traditional
university language-teaching techniques.
Changing Directions
In 1949, as a result of some drastic personnel changes, a
new chairman of the Modern Language Department was
hired. Dr. Howard W. Tessen had a Ph.D. in Languages
from Yale University and had had three years' experience
working with a New York organization which used an
adaptation of the U.S. Army Special Language Program
techniques which had been successful in the language
training of thousands of Americans during World War II.
This system used national instructors for the conversa­tional
classes, retained the special grammar classes and
laboratory sessions, but changed the materials and pro­cedures
in the conversation classes. Printed materials
were withheld from students during the first semester.
They memorized prepared dialogues in class and for
homework prepared the dialogues with a partner for
class presentation the following day. The laboratory setup
was very primitive, but the class drills did reemphasize
the dialogues and stressed audio-lingual techniques. Dr.
Frank R. Jackie joined the language staff the same year.
He had been looking for a school which favored the
audio-lingual approach and was happy to help Dr. Tessen
in the difficult transmission from one method of teaching
to another. For 12 years these men worked as a team to
build an unusual department of languages.
In Search of ExceUence
In 1961 Dr. Tessen left Thunderbird to work in various
governmental language programs and Dr. Jackie became
chairman. Dr. Jackie encouraged his trained instructors
to simplify and improve the dialogues, to revise labora­tory
equipment and techniques, and later to eliminate
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the laboratory in favor of developing and taping AGSIM
materials and requiring the students to purchase a tape
recorder and taped dialogues for the preparation of their
homework.
When AGSIM was accredited by the North Central Asso­ciation
of Secondary Schools and Colleges in 1969, further
advanced language courses had to be added to meet
graduate standards. At the same time more advanced
language students were enrolling requesting additional
languages than Spanish, Portuguese and French. To meet
this demand, German, English as a Second Language,
Japanese, and Chinese were offered. Also, to satisfy
more strict graduate requirements, Dr. Jackie began to
encourage his teachers to enroll in graduate courses at
good universities, to earn higher degrees, to keep abreast
of modern trends, and to write and submit articles to
professiona I magazines.
Unprecedented Challenges
Dr. Jackie retired as department chairman in 1974 and
recommended as his successor Dr. Jorge Valdivieso, a
national from Quito, Ecuador. Dr. Valdivieso had worked
in the department for 11 years, the last three as assistant
to the chairman. He understood the language methods
used at AGSIM, believed in them, had M.A. degrees and
a Ph.D. degree in Education and Romance Languages, and
was eager to carryon the AGSIM tradition. Dr. Valdivieso
has been an excellent choice.
In the three years since he became chairman, the student
enrollment has steadily increased. To maintain the class
size of eight students, additional part-time instructors
were needed. Presently, there are 30 full-time teachers
and 15 part-time. There are nationals from Cuba, Argen­tina,
. Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil,
France, Belgium, West-Germany, Spain, Portugal, Iran,
Taiwan, Japan ... This year Arabic was added to the
language offering . In reality, this department represents
a small United Nations with many cultural, ethnic, and
-language variations. Dr. Valdivieso is the arbiter for
maintaining the smooth, cooperative operation of this
talented group.
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INTERNA TIONAl STUDIES
Joaquin M. Duarte, Jr.
Chairman
The International Studies Department had its genesis in
the courses taught by the late Dr. William Lytle Schurz on
Latin America and on foreign affairs. Dr. Schurz came to
the American Institute of Foreign Trade after a long and
distinguished career as an expert on Latin America in the
fields of government, business, journalism, and history.
After serving a term as AlFl's second president, Dr.
Schurz turned his enormous talents to building the area
studies component of the fledgling school.
The Schurz lectures, digested by hundreds of Thunder­birds
during the late forties, the fifties and into the six­ties,
have been preserved for posterity in his ageless
texts on Latin American history, Brazil and foreign
affairs.' Excerpts from his books are still required read­ing
(remember the "handouts!") in the courses we teach.
His concepts and his area studies courses have blossomed
and grown into a body of thirty courses offered every
semester and summer session by ten full-time professors
and six visiting part-time professors, under the able di­rection
of Professor Joaquin M. Duarte, Jr., Chairman.
The original emphasis on Latin America has been expand­ed
globally to include introductory survey courses, inter­mediate
regional and topical courses and advanced sem­inars
on Asia, Europe, Middle East, North Africa, and
Subsaharan Africa. The exclusively "area studies" ap­proach
has been enhanced by a variety of pedagogical
innovations stressing problem-solving, simulations, and
relevance to practical application in the field of business
and government.
1 Brazil, the Infinite Country, The Manila Galleon, Latin America:
A Descriptive Survey, This New World, and American Foreign
Affairs.
With the advent of the seventies, Dr. John Steven Kelly,
retired colonel and distinguished scholar with three
Ph.D.'s, introduced into the International Studies Depart­ment
curriculum his series of courses on the application
of international relations theories and principles to inter­national
management and cerebration. Soon thereafter,
dynamic lady-lawyer, Columbia-trained political scientist
and women's rights activist, Dr. Shoshana Baron Tancer,
helped to globalize the International Studies Department
course offerings with her courses on Natural Resources
and her seminar on Nationalism and Expropriation. As
with Dr. Schurz, her lectures have been immortalized in
print in her book, Economic Nationalism in Latin America,
published by Praeger. The global scope breakthrough is
now reflected in Eastern European economics expert
Professor Andris Trapans' course on Economic Develop­ment
and Social Change and his East-West Seminar. In­dicative
of the growing scope and concerns of the Inter­national
Studies Department are such courses as Com­parative
Public Administration (taught by Dr. Conklin and
Dr. Springer), Professor Trapans' seminar on Economic
Development Management, and Dr. Martin Sours' seminar
on the Multinational Corporation.
After celebrating our 4th of July this summer, the Inter­national
Studies Department celebrated again a day later
when it received word that it had become the recipient
of the first major grant awarded to the American Gradu­ate
School of International Management by the federal
government in recognition of our academic maturity and
respectability. The two-year HEW-Office of Education
matching grant involving a total of $160,000.00 provides
for the establishment of a program in Cross Cultural
Communication in International Management, thereby
satisfying a vital need at our school. Chosen to direct this
innovative experiment was a top expert in this new
field, Dr. Robert Moran, who left his position as Assistant
Professor and Director of Special Orientation Programs at
the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, to begin
instruction at the American Graduate School on the 20th
of September, 1976. Some alumni may recall the inspira­tion
for this Cross Cultural Communications program in
the exciting pilot courses taught by Father Richards W.
Beekmann in 1971 and 1972.
This fall, the International Studies Department moved into
their light, airy, air-conditioned new offices in beautifully
refurbished "C-Dorm," now bearing the more elegant ap­pellation
"C-Building." The new offices very much typify
the growth, maturity and coming of age, and the new
spirit prevalent in the International Studies Deparment as
it provides the elements of international sensitivity, hu­manity,
culture, and awareness to our durable and emi­nently
successful tri-partite curriculum.
Ring Information
Order your new Thunderbird class ring, complete with
your class and degree, in 10K gold or in a new alloy,
siladium. A wide choice of stones are available with the
Thunderbird encrusted on them, or you can order the
traditional Thunderbird on black.
Also, a new women's T-Bird ring is now available with
all of the same options as with the men's ring. The style
is the exact same as the men's, but it is brought down in
size to sca Ie.
Check the envelope in this issue to receive complete
information.
WORLD BUSINESS
Robert J. McMahon
The World Business Department is constantly seeking
ways for improving its product. Its long-term objectives
continue to be our desire to attract highly qualified grad­uate
students, to improve the acceptance of the MIM
degree, and to enhance the employment opportunities of
the graduates of AGSIM. Although the department has
an enviable tradition, we hope to add to its past profes­sional
reputation with the following goals to reach the
department's objectives stated above:
1. To increase the amount of advance level study of
business subjects by AGSIM students.
2. To offer a broader curriculum that emphasizes prac­tical
applications as well as academic principles in the
proper mix for use in business.
3. To attract individuals for the faculty with academic
qualifications as well as practical experience.
The plans for accomplishing these ambitious goals are in
the process of implementation. The present requirement
for completing 15 units of World Business subjects may
be enhanced with the specification of 400 and 500 level
courses in each of the three major areas of business study
- Finance, Management, and Marketing - to satisfy grad­uation
requirements in the future.
The curriculum will be broadened in such areas as Agri­business
with a commodity marketing seminar scheduled
for Winterim 1977 as a pilot model for advance courses
beginning in the Fall of 1977. Important areas of be­havioral
science will be covered in courses on organiza­tional
behavior, consumer buying behavior, cross-cultural
communication (in concert with the International Studies
Department) which will be reinstituted and improved be­ginning
in Spring 1977. Greater emphasis in the near
future will also be placed to offer more courses on the
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quantitative aspects of management. The specialized areas
of insurance, law, and computer service will also have
pr iority for curriculum consideration.
The demanding qualifications for faculty members to
teach business courses from an international viewpoint
reduces our appointment universe considerably. The other
variables of location and academic facilities mayor may
not be attractive. In spite of this difficulty, we have an
outstanding World Business faculty that is not only the
largest full-time faculty in our history, but the most quali­fied
. We have seven with doctorates, two doctoral can­didates,
six with masters out of 19 full-time faculty
members. On the business level we have four former
presidents and three vice presidents of major companies
involved in international business. We expect to increase
these totals as we continue an aggressive recruiting ef­fort
to obtain highly qualified academicians and business
practitioners.
We plan to accomplish the goals outlined above by Fall
1977. Once they are attained, they will contribute to
satisfying our ambitious long-range objectives which are
intended to be complementary to and supportive of the
objectives of the school administration and our other
partners in the tripartite concept - the International Stud­ies
Department and the Modern Language Department.
GRADUATIONS 1976
Two hundred eighty-six students, including 52 interna­tional
students from 24 countries and territories, became
alumni of Thunderbird on May 14, 1976. The 63rd com­mencement
address was delivered by Mr. Julian Sobin,
senior vice president, International Minerals and Chemical
Corporation, president of Sobin Chemicals, and executive
vice president of IMC Chemical Group.
PAUL ALCAZAR was presented the Barton Kyle Yount
Award, which is given each commencement to the grad­uate
who is selected by the faculty on the basis of schol­arship,
character and the potential ability to serve the
American free enterprise system . Paul is currently with
General Telephone and Electronics International in Stam­ford,
Connecticut.
The Alfred Knight Award for scholastic excellence was
presented to DIANE M . CLAUSS. Alumnus-in-Residence
Award went to HECTOR HOLLAND.
The Jonas Mayer Award was presented to FRANK
GRAVES '59.
Incoming ASLC president MARCIA SHELTON, the first
AGSIM woman ASLC president, presented a gavel to
graduating ASLC president ROBERT ENGLISH.
Ninety-seven MIM's and three Certificates of Advanced
Study were awarded at the Summer 1976 graduation
ceremonies on August 13, 1976. The Honorable William
P. Mahoney, Jr., former ambassador to Ghana, delivered
the commencement address. NANCY VANDENBURG was
the winner of both the Alfred Knight Award and the
Barton Kyle Yount Award.
MARCIA SHELTON, outgoing ASLC president, accepted
the ASLC gavel from ETHAN BOOK, the incoming ASLC
president.
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Carl A. Sauer
In Memoriam
For thirteen years Carl Sauer was President of the
American Institute of Foreign Trade. Prior to that, he
served as Assistant to the President for three years and
was instrumental in the early development of the School.
On July 2, 1976, Carl A. Sauer died in his home in
Phoenix. He was seventy-four years old.
The memory of Carl Sauer will live in many ways on the
Thunderbird Campus. When we see the tamarisk trees
along the white fence surrounding the campus, we will
remember how he planted them from seeds he had
gathered at the Southwest Arboretum. The Key Man
Building and Faculty Houses will remind us that he asked
a local paint company to develop "Thunderbird Pink."
Gift plates in books donated to the library are an ac­knowledgement
of his wide interest in reading - from
Science Fiction to Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of
Civilization.
Who could forget that Carl Sauer introduced the radiant
Clare Booth Luce dressed in a beautiful golden gown as
a commencement speaker? Or the evening when Frank
Lloyd Wright in his typical costume, a pork pie hat, cane,
and flowing cape, arrived for his speaking engagement
one-half hour late as a nervous Dr. Sauer waited in an
auditorium crowded to capacity?
With the help of Fred Gyger, Carl Sauer continued a pro­gram
of transforming a facility designed to train pilots
for the Air Force into a school for the training of interna­tional
businessmen. Partitions were put in, shelves and
cabinets designed to make the existing buildings and re­sources
adequate.
But perhaps the greatest contribution Carl Sauer has
made to Thunderbird is his influence on the lives of stu­dents
and faculty . .. as a teacher in the American Tra­ditions
course, in hours spent with him in his home talk­ing,
listening to music, viewing slides, in counseling. He
participated in the school's social activities, as a dark
stranger with a green mask at a Hallowe'en Party, at an
Easter Egg Hunt, at an annual Posada and Pinata Party at
Christmastime. On Monday evenings Dr. Sauer moderated
a group called "Speakeasy" - a group of students inter­ested
in developing public speaking ability.
His interest in the development of The American Gradu­ate
School of International Management continued to the
time of his death. He frequently visited the campus and
discussed the school's progress. Before his death, he do­nated
to the school his sizeable personal library.
Those of us who knew him will miss his presence. All of
us will benefit from his contributions to our school.
- Courtesy of Lora Jean Wheeler
A memorial fund honoring Carl Sauer is being created
by his friends. Preference for the use of the income
from the Carl Sauer Memorial Fund will be for the
purchase of books and periodicals for the Library.
ALUMNI RELATIONS
Thomas J. Beatty was awarded the Northern Arizona University
Assistantship for the Spring Semester, 1976. To complete his
academic service, Tom was assigned to work in the Alumni
Office. During the semester, he analyzed the results of the
alumni questionnaires (THUNDERBIRD - Spring 1976) and di­rected
the Las Vegas Night activities ~r those alumni who
attended Interfest 1976. Here, Tom presents the mechanics of
assistantships from the perspective of how they should work
and how his actually did work.
ASSISTANTSHIPS
In a world of spiraling costs, AGSIM and its alumni have
traditionally contributed a substantial amount of support
to the student in need of financial assistance. Many pro­grams
have been established for this purpose. Scholar­ships,
fellowships, assistantships, student loan funds, on­campus
student employment, and grants for continuing
students are all part of an overall aid program designed
to accommodate as many applicants as possible. Assist­antships
alone constitute an annual commitment to in­coming
students of $69,840!
Eighteen assistantships are awarded each Spring, Sum­mer,
and Fall Semester on the basis of both financial
need and academic performance (minimum 3.5 GPA).
Three of the 18 assistantships are available to promising
graduates of the state universities of Arizona - the Uni­versity
of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern
Arizona University. Two are Peace Corps assistantships,
and three are offered each term for honorably discharged
veterans who possess leadership capabilities and motiva­tion
for an international career. Superior scholars who are
highly motivated and have participated in a wide range
of extracurriculur and professional activities are eligible
for ten World-Wide Assistantships.
Each assistantship covers the tuition costs of the recip­ient's
first term (currently $1,435) and requires the stu­dent
to render academic service up to 10 hours per week.
This service takes many forms: typist, paper-grader, re­searcher,
and even, in one instance, chairman of an
Alumni Las Vegas Night! The service also involves many
departments and offices: World Business, International
Studies, Language, Financial Aids, Admissions and Rec­ords,
and your own Alumni Office.
On the whole, the assistantship program has achieved a
high degree of success. Benefits are realized by the stu­dents
in the form of financial assistance, and by the
school in the form of academic service. Furthermore, the
assistantship portion of the financial aid package repre­sents
a valuable promotional consideration to those pros­pective
students the alumni are constantly recruiting.
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On the morning of February 9, 1976, I stopped in the
north hangar to check my mail box I was anxious to see
if the spiders had successfully repelled the invading
cockroaches of the day before. Both had in fact suc­cumbed
to a deluge of informative notices. These mes­sages
contained innumerable opportunities to broaden
my education. The Glendale High School District informed
me that their students would be delighted to hear me
speak on the controversial subject of "Barracks Life in the
U.S. Army." I was also reminded "not to miss" the next
meeting of the Candyland Game Players Club.
Somewhere amidst this barrage of clutter, I chanced upon
a note from Diane Connelly, the Alumni Director. As an
Arizona assistantship recipient, I would be required to
work 10 hours per week somewhere in the school admin­istration.
According to Diane's note, that somewhere was
to be the Alumni Office. During the rest of the morning,
I tried to imagine just what I could contribute to the
Alumni Office. I couldn't type; I couldn't answer a tele­phone
with a hold button; and, more importantly, I
wasn't even pretty! (Elizabeth Ray has all the luck.) After
eliminating all conceivable possibilities, I still didn't have
any idea of what to expect - least of all, Diane Connelly.
Still trying to organize my thoughts, I entered the Alumni
Office with a sense of foreboding.
After a few introductory formalities, Diane put me com­pletely
at ease. She dispelled all my agonizing worries
with only one word - the by-word of the Alumni Office
-"bizarre." This is how Diane described herself, the staff,
my duties for the next four months, and the Alumni Of­fice
in general. Nine months later, I am still "working"
in the Alumni Office and wholeheartedly agree - bizarre
is the only way to describe my association with the
Alumni Office. Every time I stepped into the office, I felt
as if I had just "crossed over into the twilight zone."
Here, none of the natural laws and rules applied, and
reason had been apparently outlawed .
Where else, but in the AGSIM Alumni Office, can you be
assigned the chairmanship of a Las Vegas Night? (Just
what does a Las Vegas Night have in common with the
Alumni Office?) And where else would the Alumni Sec­retary,
Chris Gorsline, give you a melting ice cream bar
only licked once by her dog, Alvin?
Where else, but in the Alumni Office, would the resident
historian, David Henry, ask to borrow a box of crayons to
color his "do-it-yourself" greeting cards? And where else
can you find a homemade backgammon board using
paperclips and tacks as opposing pieces?
The Alumni Office is definitely an odd combination of
people and projects - in another word, bizarre. I had
never thought of myself in this way before. Now I'm not
so sure. For weeks I had listened to various references to
Berger, whose approval was needed for many projects.
So when I needed an O.K., I even called to make an
appointment with a Mr. Berger - that's bizarre!
Where else, but in the Alumni Office, does your "in" box
double as a donut tray at Alumni Council meetings?
Where else can you find 200 decks of playing cards, 4
black-jack tables, a craps table, and even a pachinko
game, but in the AGSIM Alumni Office?
No, normalcy is not a characteristic of AGSIM's Alumni
Office and it shouldn't be. Thunderbird is unique! And,
consistent with that concept, its Alumni Office should
also be unique and should serve its unique alumni in a
unique way - in another word - bizarre. Yes, the Alumni
Office is definitely bizarre, but an affectionate bizarre.
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RESOURCE PERSONS -
The following is a list of T-Birds who have volunteered to serve as Association officers and/or Resource Persons in their
geographical areas. If you are visiting, job-hunting, or moving to their areas, they will help you. Yet another example
of Thunderbird spirit and of how T-Birds give service to their school and fellow alumni . Use them. Get to know them.
Enjoy them. (Perhaps you would like to volunteer to serve in your area. If so, let us know and we will add your name
to this distinguished list.)
ARIZONA
(Phoenix)
Ken Nelson
6720 N. 18th PI.
Phoenix, AZ
tel: 265-2033
CALIFORNIA (Northern)
(Bay Area)
Sherman J. Olson
c/ o AFIA
235 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
tel: 415-421-0444
Roland J. Willits
UNITED STATES
ILLINOIS
(Chicago)
Bob Johnson
Dallas Dawson
American Motors Corp.
27777 Franklin Rd.
Southfield, MI 48076
RE Johnson IntI. Assoc. MINNESOTA
1795 Taft Avenue
Rolling Meadows, IL
tel: 312-358-6464
60008 Mary McMunn
Northwest Airlines
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Randy Miller
c/ o Continental Bank
2315 S. La Salle Street
Chicago, IL 60696
tel: 312-465-5352
Paula Messer
International Airport
St. Paul, MN 5511 1
NEW YORK
Mike Crotty
21 W. 86th St., #710
New York, NY 10024
tel : 212-929-4100
212-724-8500
Mike Louden
109-2 Van Buren Rd.
Voorhees, NJ 08043
(working in Pennsylvania)
Robert August
309-G Indian Creek Apts.
Wynnewood, PA 19096
TEXAS
(Dallas)
Barbara Stewart
535 Towne House Ln.
Richardson, TX 75080
Dave Trott
6073 Village Glen Dr.,
# 4228
Dallas, TX 75206
OTHER COUNTRIES
AUSTRALIA
Dave Wallace
Charterbridge Pty., limited
G.P.O. Box 114
Sydney 2001, N.S.W., Australia
BAHAMAS
Suzanne J. Black
Allied Bank International
P.O. Box N-3944
Nassau, Bahamas
George W. Cevallas-Bowen
P.O. Box N-3229
Deltec Banking Corporation
limited
342 Blackstone Drive
San Rafael, CA 94903
tel: 415-453-1655
4343 N. Clarendon
Apt. 1509
Chicago, IL 60613 John Sandor Luis Molinar
10 Waterside Plaza, # 17-D c/o Bell Helicopter
Nassau, Bahamas
tel: 809-322-8730
Jesse Wilson
127 E. Ash New York, NY 10010 1901 Central Dr.
BOLIVIA
John P. Kluever
Gary Michael Canton, IL 61520 Debby Smith
1776 Monroe, Apt. H-C
Santa Clara, CA 95050
tel: 408-296-0982 (H)
. 40 Sutton Place, Apt. 8-C
Cynthia Y?U~g New York, NY 10022
53? N. Michigan, Apt. 1602 tel: 212-754-1100 x560
415-783-0878 (0) Chicago, IL 6061 1
(Fresno)
Roland E. Garcia
4325 W. Shaw # B
Fresno, CA 93711
CALIFORNIA (Southern)
(Los Angeles)
Jeff Ruby
23016 Haddock Drive
Diamond Bar, CA 91765
tel : 714-595-9943 (H)
213-330-0666 (0)
(Peoria)
David Traff
1811 Kingsway, # F-5
Peoria,IL 61614
Ed Noonan
Caterpillar Tractors
100 N.E. Adams
Peoria, IL 61602
Fred Leenerts
J D Intercontinental
909 3rd
Moline, IL 61265
KANSAS
Walt Atkinson
(San Diego)
Craig A. Starkey
Box 1122
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
tel : 714-756-2692
8800 E. Harry, #403
92067 Wichita, KA 67207
FLORIDA
Marlon E. Willson
7241 S.w. 118 St.
Miami, FL 33143
George E. Grimmett
Suite 1414, CNA Tower
255 S. Orange Ave.
Orlando, FL 32801
LOUISIANA
Rod Taylor
1024 Jefferson Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70115
Keith Cromley
1217Royal
New Orleans, LA 70116
MARYLAND
Bruce Wallace
Robert Michaud Box 155, Williams Road
3000 No. A-I -A , Bldg . 13, Hydes, MD 21082
Apt. 109
Indialantic, FL 32903 MASSACHUSETTS
HAWAII
Harry Fanning
44-208 Malae Place
Kaneohe, HI 96744
Gary Miller
Suite #501
P.O. Box 3149
Honolulu, HI 96802
Phillippe Deymes
Schwietzer Division
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Lee, MA 01238
MICHIGAN
Greg Buchai
Chrysler Corp.
P.o . Box 1919
Detroit, MI 48231
Peter Nicholson
15 Jones St., Apt. I-A
New York, NY 10011
tel: 212-675-1056
Carlos Orchard
NOSAMCO Services Inc.
60 E. 42nd St.
lincoln Bldg .
New York, NY 10036
(Rochester)
R. Wayne Walvoord
c/ o Security Trust Co.
(IntI. Dept.)
One East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14638
NORTH CAROLINA
Tom Wong
119 Stonington Lane
Charlotte, NC 28212
OHIO
(Cleveland)
Arif Hofiz
The Ridge Tool Co.
400 Clark St.
Elyria, OH 44035
Mike Groeneveld
5115Lake Road, #824
Sheffield Lake, OH 44054
Allan Welch
14914 Lake Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44107
Steve Mahood
31 Stewart Court
Oberlin, OH 44074
Harry Cockrell
c/ o The Ridge Tool Co.
400 Clark Street
Elyria, OH 44035
PENNSYLVANIA
Donald Stanek
2862 Washington St.
Easton, PA 18042
tel : 201-859-2151 (0)
215-252-2131 (H)
8edford, TX 76021
(Houston)
Virginia McCampbell
Suite 1200, Conoco Tower
Five Greenway Plaza East
Houston, TX 77046
tel : 713-621-9050
Earl V. Dragics
10162 Haddington
Houston, TX 77043
WASHINGTON
(Seattle)
Barton L. Hartzell
6322 126th Avenue S.E.
Bellvue, WA 98006
tel: 206-641-2796
Haven Stewart
12205 6th Ave. N.W.
Seattle, WA 98177
tel : 206-292-3344
(So. Washington &
Portland, OR)
D. Barker Bates
1926 Olympia Way
Longview, WA 98632
WASHINGTON, D.C.
John Votta
Rt. 6, Box 577
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
WISCONSIN
(Milwaukee)
Mark Mahoney
c/ o Box 56
Milwaukee, WI 53701
Ernest Kangas
515 112 N. Hartwell
Waukesha, WI 53186
tel: 414-224-0240 (0)
414-549-0942
c/ o I.B.M. de Bolivia S.A.
La Paz, Bolivia
BRAZIL
(Recife)
Byron Coelho
1955 Estrada dos Remedios
50000 Recife, Pernambuco
tel: 812-272552
Noel Lang
Av. Boa Viogem 3906 Apt. 301
50.000 Recife, Pernambuco,
Brazil
(Rio de Janeiro)
Ernie Escobedo
Bethlehem Brazilian Corp.
Avienda Churchill 129, Suite 402
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
tel : 242-3885 or 222-9540
Cable: "Bethlehem"
Rio de Janeiro
Roberto Bumagny (Paula)
Rua Prof. Arthur Ramos 151,
Apt. 301
Rio de Janeiro 20.000
Brazil
Dolph Johnson
Rua Barao de Guaratiba 218/303
Gloria ZC-Ol
Rio de Janeiro,
20.000 Brazil
Sao Paulo
Dennis Orio
CANADA
Norman Mcintosh
1375 Prince of Wales Dr., Apt. 1812
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2C 3L5
CHILE
Hector Holland Max Krauss
Koehring Int'I. Marketing Co. Maciver 265 Oficina 61
780 Water St. Santiago, Chile
Milwaukee, WI 53201
AI Keiser
c/o Marshall & IIsley Bank
770 N. Water Street
Milwaukee, WI 53201
COLOMBIA
Gabriel E. Cuellar
Apartado Aereo 90877
Bogota, Colombia
COSTA RICA
Jim Dahlstrom
c/o Super Servicio
Apartado 992
San Jose, Costa Rica
tel: 22-55-44
James Stanley
Box 5181
San Jose, Costa Rica
EL SALVADOR
John R. Arnold
Arnold Enterprises
Box 1111
San Salvador, EI Salvador
Jim Koessler
c/o Arguenta Koessler
SA de C.V.
Paseo General Escalon y
83 Ave. Sur
San Salvador, EI Salvador
tel: 23-9000
FRANCE
Pascal Cornille
70 Rue Du Point Du Jour
92.100 Boulogne, Seine, France
R. A Dienhart
Ashland Chemical Co.
104, Bureaux de la Colline
92213-Saint-Cloud, France
tel: 602.20.05
GERMANY
Manfred lolocher
c/o M. Gerster
Weissdorn Str. 14
4000 Duesseldorf, Germany
Roy de Motte
Heidenreich-Handel
Fuerstenzeller Str. 2
8359 Ortenburg, Germany
tel: 08542/ 593
GREECE
Dennis Gauanos
Sanavag Assoc. GP
P.O. Box 1622, Syntagma Sq.
Athens 126, Greece
HONG KONG
Kris W. Anderson
c/ o Seagrams Overseas Sales
402 Asian House
Hong Kong
Philip G. Blaisdell
Chase Manhattan Bank
AI.A Building
Hong Kong
If's a TWIP!
Allan S. Cheng
c/ o Meyer Mfg. Co. ltd.
330 Kwan Tong Road
Hong Kong
Bill Tak-Ming ling
c/o ling-McCann-Erickson ltd .
Suite 902, 916 Central Ald.
Hong Kong
C. Gregg Wadas
Trade Media ltd.
P.O. Box K-1786
Hong Kong
INDIA
Y. G. Dwarkanath
SRI Krishna SPG & WVG
Mills (Private) ltd.
Subamanyapura
Bangalore 11, India
Charles Niemann
Deputy County Director of CARE
P.O. Box 4220
New Dehli, 110048, India
INDONESIA
Daniel J. Goldsmith
c/ o USAID/PHD
American Embassy
J I. Merdeka Salatan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Stephen G. Heiner
c/ o Total Indonesie / CFP
Compagnie Francaise des Petroles
Tromolpos 10/ J KT,
Jakarta, Indonesia
IRAN
Nersi Sahba
National Iranian Oil Co.
Marketing & Exporting Dept.
P.O. Box 1863
Tehran, Iran
JAPAN
Jim Dale
International leisure Corp.
Tokyo Tower
4-2-8 Shibakoen, Minato-ku
Tokyo,Japan
KENYA
Gerald H. Kangas
c/ o Citibank
P.O. Box30490
Nairobi, Kenya
tel: 334-286
Michael Curtis
c/ o Citibank
G.P.O.30490
Nairobi, Kenya
Actually, it's the first annual Thunderbird Winter Interna­tional
Pilgrimage, and this year's TWIP is heading for
Europe!
On New Year's morning a group of Thunderbird Alumni,
Students, Faculty, Staff, Friends of Thunderbird and their
families will board an Air France flight at L. A. Interna­tional
Airport. After a plane change in Paris, the group
will split in Geneva. One contingent will be heading for
eleven days of skiing and eleven nights of apres-ski in
Chamonix-Mt. Blanc, winter play land of the French Alps,
just a short bus trip from Geneva. The remainder of the
TWIP participants will be on their own on the Continent,
utilizing rental cars or other transportation arrangements,
and will meet the group back in Geneva eleven days
later for the flight back to Paris and a final European
night in the City of Lights.
The TWIP is being organized through the Alumni Office.
The dates are January 1-14, 1977. The price for the Fly /
Ski option, including all transportation and accommoda­tions,
will be $583 per person. The Fly/Drive option,
Jim Walton
c/ o Koehring IntI.
Nairobi, Kenya
KOREA
Woo-Hyon Paek
I.P.O. Box 3301
Seoul, Korea
Jae Suk lee
c/ o Korea Development Bank
C.P.O. Box 28
Seoul, Korea
tel: 24-2752
KUWAIT
Riad Marei
c/ o Y. Alghanim & Son
P.O. Box 223
Kuwait
MANAMA BAHRAIN­ARABIAN
GULF
Gunter H. Kohlke
AWAlCO
P.O. Box 741
Manama, Bahrain
MALAYSIA
Chuck Hazen
S.E. Asia Reptv. Office
Seattle First National Bank
11 Japan Damansara Endah
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
MEXICO
larry Schaeffer
c/ o General A Mora
56 Michelet
Colonia Nueva Anguras
Mexico 5, D.F. Mexico
tel: 545-8557
589-5115
Victor Alfaro
Aguasca I ientes
7 bis-:!tl
Mexico City 7, D.F. Mexico
Patrick T. Mclaughlin
c/ o Fromex S.A
Genova 33 PH
Colonia Juarez
Mexico 6, D.F. Mexico
NETHERLANDS
Bill Syms
Postbus 134
Koog a/ d Zaan
The Netherlands
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
Ian D. Campbell
Blauwduifweg 8
Curacao, Netherlands Anti lies
NIGERIA
Steve Montagu-Pollock
AFIA
P.M.B. 12652
lagos, Nigeria
PERU
Hector Cespedes (Bravo)
Asesor Comercial
Embajade de Nueva Zelandia
Ave. Salaverry #3006
San Isidro, lima, Peru
PUERTO RICO
John F. Tomlinson
Caribbean Properties ltd.
171 Dec Parque
San Juan 00911, Puerto Rico
tel: 725-7365
SINGAPORE
Bill Wagner
Dodge & Seymore (Far East) Inc.
37-39 Robinson Rd., 2nd FI.
Singapore 1
tel: 94200
Keith Bovetti
Highpoint 32-C
30 Mt. Elizabeth
Singapore 9
SWEDEN
Marshall Malden
Snapperagen
23044 Vintrie
Malmoe, Sweden
SPAIN
C. Michael Bennis
Claudio Coello 92, 4-F
Madrid 1, Spain
THAILAND
Cliff Bevens
518( 4 Ploenchit Road
Sirnee Building, 3rd Floor
Bangkok, Thai land
VENEZUELA
Dominique Matron
c/ o Coca Cola Export Corp.
Apartado 3729 - Carmelitas
Caracas, Venezuela
tel: 36.42.65; 36.42.82
Suzy Sagy
Apartado 50817
Caracas 105, Venezuela
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which includes all transportation, an unlimited mileage
car in Geneva (you buy the gas) for 11 days, and the last
night's hotel in Paris, will be $609 (with four sharing a
car). The Air Fare Only option to Geneva, including the
final night's accommodations in Paris, will be $561 per
person. Although the deadline for application is quickly
approaching, anyone interested in receiving an informa­tion
brochure/application may write to Gary Martin,
TWIP Coordinator, Box 773, AGSIM, Glendale, Arizona
85306.
California and Arizona alumni have also received infor­mation
of an exciting, very reasonably priced round-trip
package to Mexico, leaving from Phoenix or Los Angeles.
Mexican alumni may also make this round-trip the other
way, visiting Disneyland and Hollywood while they visit
the Los Angeles area. Please contact the Alumni Office
for further deta ils.
If you would like to meet with visiting alumni while they
visit in your city (Paris, Geneva, Mexico City or the Los
Angeles area), please let me know. It should be fun for
you - and edifying. (And Thunderbird visitors would
probably return the favor to you when you visit where
they are based.)
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ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Advertising Council members act as clients, judges and
advisors for student INTER-AD groups. Left to right: Charles
Johnson '58, with Sunkist Growers in Van Nuys; retired mar­keting
professor Dan C. Kaufherr; Gordon Kallio '74, with
Ogilvy and Mather Inc. in Houston; Pau\ Schlesinger, marketing
professor; Steve Toms '72, with Tracy-Locke in Dallas; and Paul
Tveit '75, with the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.
International Food Festival held in New York's Central Park in
the summer of 1976. Tom Cowan '70, Mimi Kaplan '71, Laura
(Anderson) Lapp '70, George Lapp '70, Paula Greenfield
(Laura's sister), and Gaynor Williams '71. T-Birds also attending
but not shown: Bill Heineken '70, Mike Nissman '70, Curtis
and Jacky Lynch '70, Kelly and Marita O'Dea '72.
Saturday midnight on the Alaskan pipeline. Back row: Hal
Gunn M71. Front (L-R): Hal Walker A73, Dave Wold W74, Jack
Kitchen 073.
Barker Bates '51 Reports:
"The T-Bird family picnic held in Portland, Sunday, September
19, certainly was more than a Portland area group in member­ship.
Most distance traveled was by TOM and ANNE-MARIE
HEDGES '75 coming some 200 miles from Tri-Cities, Washing­ton.
Next honors divide between GENE and BARBARA ARVID­SON
'57 from Eugene, Oregon and PAT FRODEL '76 from
Aberdeen, Washington.
The weather was wonderful, after some anxious weeks of up
and down un-summery weather. The park chosen had nice
facilities such as tennis courts for the adults and a 200-yard
sloped asphalt walk for the 'skate board' agers. But mostly it
was simple conversation and a bit of 'remembering when.'
It is interesting to note that those who couldn't make it after
expressing positive interest are in the decade of '50s (and
perhaps in echelons whose plans are most apt to change?).
All agree the event was a success, and the committee will look
toward planning another one in due time. The planning com­mittee
welcomes your suggestions. They are: BARKER BATES
'51 (206-636-1786), LARRY LAMB '69 (503-297-3612), CRAIG
ADAMS '72 (503-777-1711), STEVE HALL '68 (503-222-5561)
and PIERRE LEROUEIL '75 (206-425-7436)."
Alumni Association News
Friends of Thunderbird sponsor the Second Annual Thunderbird
Invitational Hot Air Balloon Race November 20 and 21 at
Thunderbird Campus. Call Doris Paine (602-948-6769) for fur­ther
information.
Arizona alumni meet in Phoenix for cocktails before Balloon
Race weekend, November 20 and 21. Contacts are KEN NELSON
'54 (602-265-2033) and CHUCK MURPHY '71 (602-262-2821).
Call JERRY OLSON '50 (415-421-0444 or 415-933-2910), pres­ident
of the Northern California alumni group, for details of
Northern Cal's fall alumni meeting.
AGSIM's Director of Career Services, CHARLES MANNEL, was
the speaker at the Southern California meeting June 12, 1976.
Fifty-five people attended. Contact JEFF RUBY '72 (714-595-
9943 or 213-330-0666) for Dec. 4 meeting details.
Seventy Chicago alumni attended a get-together at the lakeside
home of DAVE and JEAN MOIR '49 on July 17, 1976. The
"Chicago Alumnus of the Year" award was presented to ROBERT
BEAN' 48, director of the World Trade Division for the Chicago
Association of Commerce and Industry. The award was pre­sented
by FRANK KRESCANKO '57, export manager for Du­mont
International. Contact Frank (312-969-2010) or JESSIE
WILSON '73 (312-236-8745) for future plans.
MI KE CROTTY '74 (212-929-4100 or 212-724-8500) and DEBBY
SMITH '75 (212-754-1100 x560) ask for your help for mid­November
meeting place and dates for New York alumni. "Mr.
Thunderbird" BERGER ERICKSON will be in town for the World
Trade Conference.
Contact persons in Florida are EARL OMAN '67 (305-665-7727
or 305-667-5767) and MARLON WILLSON '51 (305-238-4250
or 305-235-2141).
Dallas alumni BARBARA STEWART '74 (214-661-1197), ROBERT
KENT '76 (214-358-1932) and LUIS MOLINAR '76 (817-267-
8161) were the successful organizers of the Dallas area T-Birds
Fall party in November.
The FOUNDRY in Georgetown was the party-place for 31 en­thusiastic
Washington, D.C. area alumni, reports STEVE DE
LATEUR '74. "As this was the first such gathering in two years,
many new faces have joined the Washington ranks." STEVE
CONGER '50 and JIM MONAGHAN '54 hosted a continental
breakfast Saturday, November 6, for all Thunderbird alumni in
the Washington, D.C. area. The Breakfast was held at the
Ramada Inn at Tyson's Corner and began at 9:00 a.m. DAVE
MERCHANT, Director of Development and Public Affairs, was
there to talk about the school and the Thunderbird Fund. For
information, call STEVE CONGER (202-377-4331). Alumni Asso­ciation
contacts in the area are STEVE DE LATEUR '74 (301-986-
8746) and WALTER KEATING '75 (202-543-6419).
ERNIE KANGAS '73 (414-224-0240 or 414-549-0942) reports
that the Milwaukee T-Birds enjoyed their second annual infor­mal
family picnic July 24, 1976. It was a great "catching-up"
time with seventeen T-Birds and thirty-five family and friends
in attendance.
Houston area alumni enjoyed an organizational cocktai I party
in October, according to VIRGINIA McCAMPBELL '75 (713-621-
9050).
ERNIE ESCOBEDO 73 (242-3885) sent word of a Rio reunion
in August.
The BILL SYMSES 74, BILL DUURMAS 74, VLADAS GEDMINTAS
'69, GERD STIPPENGERS 73 and JIM WALTONS 74 enjoyed
Carnival festivities at the BayeriscHof in Munich. Please contact
BILL SYMS with Akzo in the Netherlands, PASCAL CORNILLE
74 in France, or M. LO LOCHER '69 in Germany for news of
regional European alumni planning.
BILL LING 73 (5-712221) reports a successful reunion in Hong
Kong.
Tokyo alumni hosted AGSIM's Professor SHOSHANA TANCER in
October at a Halloween party. They are invited to participate in
liST activities when Professor MARTIN SOURS of the interna­tional
studies department and Professor AKIHISA KUMAYAMA
of the modern languages department and their wives accompany
Thunderbird exchange students next spring. The contact person
in Tokyo is JIM DALE 73 with International Leisure Corporation.
PRESIDENT VORIS was hosted at RICHARD LORDEN's '60 "Les
Bons Vivant" by the Mexico group. LARRY SCHAEFFER '47 with
Admiral of Mexico and PAT MclAUGHLIN '68 with Limonex,
S.A. organized the affair. It was held on September 4, 1976.
WILLIAM WAGNER '68 (94209) and KEITH BOVETTI 75 with
Citibank reactivated the Singapore alumni this fall. How about
a report?
JAMES WILLIAMS 71 (3294-5) reports that the T-Bird gathering
planned by STEVE MYRACLE '62 with AFIA and CLIFF BEVENS
'50 with Goodyear in Bangkok at Steve's home was very en­joyable.
Fifteen alumni and their wives attended.
The Manila T-Birds got together on March 2 at a garden party
at the home of BOB and CAROL LOUIS '62 in Makati, the
Philippines. CAROL POLSON DANIEL 70 coordinated the affair
which thirty-four alumni attended. The next Manila alumni
function is tentatively planned for early 1977. Contact ART
MISNER '60, with Rohm & Haas Co. or JOHN DANIEL 70, with
Crocker Bank.
Men-L to R: Libby Ginetti '70, Charles St. Clair '56, Spencer
Berg '56, Peter Feddersen '67, Norm Baum '61, Jim Williams
'71; seated: Cliff Bevens '50, Steve Myracle '62. Women-L to R:
Abby GineHi, Michael Myracle; seated: Ms. Mary St. Clair, Ms.
Phyllis Berg, Rita Williams, Ms. Hillary Feddersen and Louise
Bevens.
Standing L. to R.: Mr. B. Ling '73, Mr. T. Krill '69, Mr. T. Lloyd
'51, Mr. G. Hsu '75, Mr. C. G. Wadas '72, Mr. C. Choy '74, Mr.
A. Bindra '74, Mr. P. Blasdite '70, Mr. D. Randall '74, Mr. L.
Phillipps '54, Mr. M. Hinrichs '65, and Mr. P. Clark '62. Seated
L. to R.: Mrs. T. Krill, Miss M. AuYueng, Mrs. D. Randall, Mrs.
L. Phillips and Mrs. P. Clark.
Thunderbird Visitors
EUGENE D. COOPER '47, Lake Isabella
JAMES S. THOMAS '48, Greenwich, Connecticut
JAMES LEE '49, Ogunquit, Maine
SHERMAN J. OLSON '50, San Francisco, California
JOSEPH F. MASTERSON '50, Boca Raton, Florida
R K ENOCHSON '53, Castro Valley, California
McNEILL WATKINS '54, Coral Gables, Florida
WEBB TODD '56, Phoenix, Arizona
DON SCHROEDER '57, Fort Collins, Colorado
BILL DRUM '58, Santa Barbara, California
FRANCIS GRAVES '59, St. Paul, Minnesota
LEONARD MARINO '60, St. Louis, Missouri
PETER REITZ '62, Chad, Africa
DON MADICH '62, Phoenix, Arizona
B. PAUL SMITH '62, Mexico City
CHARLES NIEMANN '62, Amman, Jordan
ROBERT E. WILLIAMSON '63, Moline, Illinois
DONALD C. NELSON '64, Fargo, North Dakota
CHARLES LAGERGREN '64, Racine, Wisconsin
BILL PENNEL '64, Houston, Texas
ROBERT K. NORFLEET '66, Buenos Aires, Argentina
GARY D. DE NARDO '66, Michigan City, Indiana
BILL GLEASON '66, Mill Valley, California
JOEL WINEBURGH '67, New York City
JOE GURY '68, Boulder, Colorado
DAN LOWERY '68, Sana'a, Yemen
B. W. BATTENFIELD '68, Mexico City
JERRY MORDRET '69, Tananarive, Malagasy
FRED BLOOM '69, Singapore
BEN RIGGS '69, Chandler, Arizona
CARLOS SCHEER '69 and MARINA SCHEER '61, Caracas
JIM K. SMITH '69, Perry, Oklahoma
JIM DOROBIALA '69, Glendale, California
GEORGIA NACHTMAN 70, Dallas, Texas
DAVE SHAFFER 70, Crestline, California
HARDY THOMSIK 70, Pasadena, California
FRED LEENERTS 70, Moline, Illinois
WARREN HERRGOTT 71, Phoenix, Arizona
MIMI KAPLAN 71, Alameda, California
BILL WALSH 71, Geneva, Switzerland
BRIAN DERBY 71, Buchanan, Michigan
JACK CIMA 74, Phoenix, Arizona
J. FRED DUFFER 72, Dallas, Texas
DWAN SHIPLEY 70, Anada, Colorado
GEORGE CRANE 72, Yuma, Arizona
LIN THOMAS 71, San Francisco, California
DENNIS OSHIRO 72, Honolulu, Hawaii
JOHN WALLACE 72, Sunnyvale, California
R. E. DUNGAN 72, New York City
TIM MORRISSEY 72, Guayaquil, Ecuador
MANFRED BRAUN 72, Houston, Texas
WILLIAM BARKELL 72, Manila, Philippines
EUGENE NAGLE 72, Houston, Texas
CHUCK ROBERTS 72, Evanston, Illinois
PAUL COLLINS 72, Portageville, New York
ART WEHRMEISTER 73, San Diego, California
GEORGE J. "JO" DAVIS 73, Palmer Lake, Colorado
WILLIAM AMEN 73, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
JIM HENDERSON 73, Grand Prairie, Texas
ROGER MADSEN 73, Provo, Utah
GORDY KALLIO 74, Houston, Texas
EDUARD VAN BREEN 74, New York City
DWIGHT WINKLER 74, Palatine, Illinois
GARY MONTGOMERY 74, Anaheim, California
HAL YONOVITZ 74, Casa Grande, Arizona
JAN WRIGHT 74, Los Angeles, California
STANLEY GOLDSMITH 74, Fullerton, California
HEINZ and REBECCA NEWBURN FROHNMAYER 74, Munich
PATRICK RANKIN 74, Los Angeles, California
BARBARA STEWART 74, Dallas, Texas
DAVE McCULLOCH 75, Van Nuys, California
JERRY PASCOE '65, London, England
GARY HUGHES 75, Healdsburg, California
D. B. LUND 75, Lubbock, Texas
DEBBIE GAYLORD 75, Pacifica, California
CHUCK IRION 75, Thousand Oaks, California
ESTELLE MARCHALL 75, EI Cajon, California
RAINY ATCHISON 75, Van Nuys, California
THOMAS HANCOCK 75, Denver, Colorado
LEONARD and DEMETRA BROCKMAN 75, New Orleans, La.
DAVID VOTRUBA 76, Detroit, Michigan
EDWARD BEAR 76, House at Pooh Corner
CARLOS ORCHARD 76, New York City
JAMES MILLER 76, Tempe, Arizona
DAN PENKAR 76, Rego Park, New York
COLLEEN GIZA 76, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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18
CLASS NEWS
Births
BOYS
LOUIS & NEDRA KLEINMAN '60, Eric Matthew, New York City,
New York ... J. N. & KAREN PIZNAK '70, Ryan Alexander,
New York City, New York ... HOWARD & BARBARA SPIEGL-MAN
'70, Alexandria, Virginia ... FRED & SUSIE KRAGE '71,
Nathan Joel, Bogota, Colombia ... SVERRE & FRANCA KOX-VOLD
'72, Ian Leif, Belgium ... GARY & MICKIE MICHAEL '72,
Bryan Lee, Santa Clara, California . . . BILL & PAT RYE '72,
Abraham Benjamin, Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee . . . The TOM
WATERS '72, Gregory Christopher, Larkspur, California ' . ..
THOMAS & NANCY HARVEY '73, Brian Thomas, Sacramento,
California ... ROBERT & PENNY AUGUST '75, Jason Todd,
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
GIRLS
ROBERT & NAOMI KISNER '67, twin girls, Camille & Calistra,
Nogales, Arizona ... BOB & FOROUGH VASSAR '68, Deborah
Elham, Jakarta, Indonesia ... LARRY & JILL KROH '69, Megan
Kimberly, Atlanta, Georgia . . . JOHN & FILL ORTMAN '70,
Rebecca, Quito, Ecuador . . . DON l & CLAUDIA DAVIS '72,
Rebecca Rae, Agana, Guam ... MIKE & KAREN GARDINER '72,
Mohegan Lake, New York ... ROBERT & JOAN WEDWICK '72,
Sara Joanne, Bellbrook, Illinois ... ERNIE & HELEN ESCOBEDO
'73, Christina Rebecca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ... PAUL &
PENNY WAGNER '73, Tracy, Sao Paulo, Brazil ... MARK &
DORIN HARRISON '74, Dallas, Texas ... KOHEI & NAOMI
OGAWA '76, Chiba, Japan.
Marriages
DOLPH JOHNSON '68 and Margarita Del Valle, Buenos Aires,
Argentina ... DAVID LAYTON '68 and Cathy Darlynn Fisher,
Alameda, California ... ROXANNE CAMPBELL '69 and Dean
Davidson, Coral Gables, Florida ... DONALD GOODRICH '71
and Beverly Law, Bellevue, Washington ... MAXIMO LAU '72
and Carol Cooper, San Salvador, EI Salvador ... CHARLES E. G.
LLOYD, JR. '72 and Sally Hill, New York City, New York ...
GEORGE DE BAKEY '73 and Jimmie Lou Crook, Weybridge,
England ... CLAXTON "BUD" LOVIN '73 and CARALIE OLSEN
'73, Newport Beach, California . .. JEFFREY C. ANDERSON '74
and PATRICIA ANN VACEK '74, Hamilton, New York ... BOB
BLUMBERG '74 and Linda Parmenson, Port Aransas, Texas ...
HEINZ FROHMAYEER '74 and REBECCA NEWBURN '74, Munich,
West Germany ... JOEL KOPEL '73 and Christine Jones, Lon-don,
England ... BERNIE WEGERT '74 and KAREN JOHNSON
'74, Cali, Colombia ... ROBERT BURNQUIST '75 and ELLEN
HUMPHREYS '75, St. Joseph, Missouri ... GEORGE FRONSKE
'75 and Nonglak Piensook, Glendale, California ... MARILYN
OETJEN '75 and Edward Philipp, Ohio ... EMMETT DALE
STEEK '75 and Jana Carol Jones, Phoenix, Arizona ... JAMES
PERKINS '76 and Karen, Columbus, Ohio .. . JOHN STEVENSON
'76 and ANNICK KERREST '76, Connecticut ... HANS-J . URBYE
'76 and Reita Blodgett, Glendale, Arizona . .. Akihisa Kuma-yama,
Professor of Japanese at AGSIM, and Deborah Anne
Berkowitz, Tucson, Arizona.
Deaths
STEPHEN L. DE BARRY '49, Dallas, Pennsylvania ... CARL
PERKINS, JR. '49, Toledo, Ohio ... JAMES BETTA '55, Bogota,
Colombia ... WILMA PLUNKETT '55, San Francisco, California
· . . CHARLES KLESSIG '56, Hartford, Wisconsin . . . DR.
RICHARD D. CARTER '62, Orrville, Ohio ... ROBERT SCHUTJER
KM66, Moline, Illinois ... JAMES BRIGHT '72, Akron, Ohio
· .. OLEN HARRIS, former member of AGSIM board of directors
· .. CARL A. SAUER, former president of AGSIM (see page 12).
Kisners - Camille & Calistra
Dolph & Margarita Johnson
Address Unknown
ARTHUR S. BILLINGS '55
ANTHONY J. BREIDENBACH '55
THOMAS E. ROGERS '56
RODNEY W. HARTWELL '57
DAVID A. LURIE '57
NORMA STOTHERS IRVINE '57
GEORGE F. NORWOOD '61
VIRGIL C. WAGONER JR. '61
EDWARD J. FURLONG '62
JAMES O. FREDERICK '63
SUSAN PRINDEVILLE '63
JOHN P. LYONS '64
SUSAN HAVILAND FITZGERALD '65
MARY E. FRECONNA '65
RONALD L. CABE '66
BRANGER R. MILLER '68
RALPH A. GIRARD, JR. '69
CHARLES RUND '70
DOUGLAS C. HAYES '72
LAURIER M. CARPENTIER '74
CLASS NEWS
47 Leon Szymanek is a broker-salesman with Century 21 's
Stanley Realtors in Chicago .... From Joe Graf: "I am
senior mining truck marketing specialist for WABCO,
Peoria, Illinois ... spent one month in 1974 in Peking nego­tiating
big truck sale to People's Republic of China. I have
traveled about 70 countries since graduation, thanks to Thun­derbird
... . " (Son, Joe, was the first child born to Thunderbird
parents, November, 1946.) ... Ralph Hardy is still on the fac­ulty
of Presque Isle Junior High School, teaching language arts .
. . . Merriconnie Gossett Stelzer is teaching at The Orme School,
Mayer, Arizona.
48 The Houston Post of February 1, 1976 featured Don
Lenertz, secretary-treasurer of a small Port Lavaca auto
and marine parts corporation. .. Jim Thomas, as
assistant treasurer of ITT, was in Phoenix for the company's
meeting. He visited with Webb Todd '56 and Nancy Williams
'76 . ... AGSIM professor, John Lindholtz, ran into Lucian
Geisman '75 at the Hotel Intercontinental in Lahore, Pakistan,
where Lucian has his own family business.
Gerald Marugg Anthony Lodico
49 Roy Craig is president-owner of Craig Supply Com­pany,
a Phoenix wholesale interior window coverings
company .... Gerald Marugg has earned the designa­tion
of certified purchasing manager with Bechtel Power Cor­poration
in Norwalk, California .... Jim Lee was a great help
in resourcing for Thirty Years at Thunderbird. He contributed a
1947 FORTUNE article and early back issues of the school
newspaper ... . Irving Taylor is a health consultant with Medical
Service Consultants, Inc. "He will head a team of health profes­sionals
working with the Liberian government to establish a
health planning system and modify the health delivery system
in the African country." .. . Anthony Lodico is chairman of the
Southern California committee of the Thunderbird Fund.
50 Self-employed Jean Rockwell represents American
sporting goods in Europe. The family moved to Wies­baden,
Germany from Switzerland last January, and
he travels to fourteen countries .... Napoleon Montoya has
formed his own lumber compa ny in Alberta, Canada. He and
Tina will be touring Mexico in July . . .. After fifteen years of
being out of contact, Bob Keffeler updates: "I am still an All­state
agent in Rochester (N.Y.)." ... The Joe Masterson family
visited campus for the first time since graduation. They were on
their way to San Francisco to spend a weekend with the Sher­man
Olson's '50. They are living in Boca Raton, Florida, where
Joe is now owner of Insurance & Reinsurance Services Inc.
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Robert W. Feagles
51 Robert Feagles left his position as senior vice president­personnel
at Citibank to become senior vice president­personnel
administration at The Travelers Insurance
Companies ... . Victor W. Landigan is Chevron's regional man­ager
for EI Salvador and Nicaragua .... D. Barker Bates and
Marjorie had the Pierre Leroueils '75 over for " AGSIM story
exchange and general conversation." The Portland alumni group
get-together that they planned was a great success .... Jack
Snyder has been elected 1977 president of the Glendale Board
of Realtors in Glendale, California.
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53
Ed Wedepohl is executive vice president for General
Foods, Tokyo, Japan.
No news received. Are all you '53 T-Birds dead or
disabled?
5 5 Eric Ericsson reports that at Schiller College are Janie,
director of the London study center, and Kristin, a
student at the Strasbourg, France center. Lindsey
works for a London recording company and Eric is an inerna­tiona
I representative . . .. Bob Warren, formerly president and
chief executive officer with Bendix International, is vice presi­dent
of international operations for Hansen and Varo, ltd.,
executive recruitment firm in San Diego.
56 Bill Tiernay has been appointed area director of Phillip
Morris International for the Caribbean and Mexico.
... GDI sports continue to grow, thanks greatly to
the traveling efforts of Jack Butefish. He says he has "really
used and enjoyed Boye de Mente's '53 books on the Japanese."
... The guest speaker at the August dinner meeting of the
League of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in Phoenix,
Arizona was Diane Connelly, director of alumni relations at
AGSIM.
57 Ted Troy, assistant to the president, R. J. Reynolds
Company, Winston-Salem, N.C., completed a Key Man
Course at Thunderbird in Portuguese prior to his as­signment
to Brazil as president of the Brazilian subsidiary ....
Terry Lin Arthur, daughter of John Arthur and Jean, was
awarded the Top Model Award by the Modeling Association of
America International this spring in New York City. She often
appears in national beauty product TV commercials. Her father
is registrar and college relations officer at Thunderbird ....
William Moseley has formed his own firm, Basic Services Inter­national
, which concentrates in health care, food, education,
and agricultural fields. The main focus of business activity is
Middle East and Africa ... . Robert Schroeder has been named
President and General Manager of ARMCO Venezdana S.A.
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J. H. Dethero
5 8 Stanley Allen has been a self-E\mployed planning re­search
consultant in Oregon. He had a visit from the
Stan Cosbys '60 of Walnut Creek last Spring. "Give
my best to Berger and Larry ." .. . Hobert Caltrider reported
that Richard Burrutia '59 is teaching at University of California,
Irvine. Hobert heads his own manufacturers' representatives
company in Costa Mesa, California and specializes in marketing
equipment to the petroleum, marine, public utilities and gen­eral
industries . ... J. H. Dethero is senior vice president, inter­national
division, Crocker Bank, and area head for Europe,
Africa, and the Middle East.
Frances Graves
59 "Soon to be associated with Miami, Florida based
company called Green Export Associates, specializing
in general merchandise to Central America as a sales
representative," writes Robert Roberts . ... Dick Gore is the
president of Majestic Bolting Cloth Corporation in New York.
This company imports industrial fabrics for resale to the fi Itra­tion
and screen printing industries .. . . Coordinator of place­ment
and alumni relations at the College of Great Falls, Great
Falls, Montana is Frank Day's title . . . . Anthony Finnerty reports
he is still with Manpower Japan Co. and is now the chairman
of the China Commercial Relations Committee of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Japan . . .. The David Youmans are
on a challenging Bolivian assignment with Foster Parents Plan .
... Dr. Eric Beerman has written the introduction for a "new
and important book for Spanish-American History" called Yo
Solo, "the battle journal of Bernardo de Galvez during the
American Revolution." ... Frances Graves won the Jonas Mayer
Award, May, 1976.
Art Misner
60 Continental Airline's April 1976 FLiGHTIME "execs at
the top" featured William L. Brown, president and
chief executive officer of Brown-Forman Distillers­Corporation.
. . . "Promoted to d ivision ceilings manager,
Armstrong Cork International GMBH, Duesseldorf, Germany;
responsibility for ceiling systems in all of Europe except UK,
Spain," writes Robert Dilworth .. .. L. Yves Cocke sent us a
fine write-up on Art Misner Jr. and the last Philippine T-Bird
reunion. He advises that during his extensive travels as area
manager-Far East for Endo Laboratories he has seen Pete Burgess
'60, Marv Epperson '61, Bert Higgins '54, Bob Heineman '60,
Paul Simons '70, Ron Pfafflin '73, Tom McDonald '60, Stu
Perkins '63, Tom Young '69. He reports that Bill Cargiulo '58
has moved from New York City to Chicago to become vice
president, Latin America for G. D. Searle, and that Tom Mc­Donald
'75 is associate regional manager, nursing, in New York
City .. .. Robert Ballinger is assistant professor of marketing
and management at Siena College in Londonville, N.Y. He
hopes to meet some Thunderbirds in the Albany area ... . Art
Misner as director of the East Asia sub region of the Pacific,
Rohm & Haas Company, will retain his responsibilities as presi­dent
and general manager, Rohm & Haas Philippines and con­tinues
to reside in Manila. His career has taken him to the
Philippines, India, Mexico and back to the Philippines five years
ago . . .. Citibank has moved Gene L. Bennett from South Africa
to Nairobi. ... Another "lost" T-Bird stopped on campus­Leonard
Marino and family en route to California. Leonard is
now vice president-merchandise and deSign for the Angelica
Uniform Company in St. Louis, Missouri . .. . Dave Wallace re­ports
that his company, Charterbridge Pty., Ltd ., which sells
managerial international incentive programs, has come along
nicely after only 15 months in Sydney, Australia. . . . Bob
Crossley is working for General Tire International Co. as treas­urer
of their affiliate, Ecuadorian Rubber Co. in Quito, Ecuador.
He and wife Maria have formed a barbershop quartet and are
both active in a theater group . .. . Thad Hogan, working for
Peterson/ Puritan, Inc. as a contract packager, was moved to the
home office in Danville, Illinois as corporate vice president­planning.
61 Robert Garrison writes, "After almost fifteen years with
AFIA working in Colombia and Brazil , I recently joined
an Argentine financial and insurance group." He and
Annick, with their five children, left March 11 for Buenos Aires
by ship . ... Alvord Branan was a panel participant at the North
American Society for 17th Century French Literature meeting at
Harvard in April. E!izabeth received her Ph.D. at Tulane the
same month . ... Jaime Ghezzi is vice president and branch
manager for Miles Caribe in Puerto Rico ... . Joe de Cola is a
producer with CBS "60 Minutes" television show in New York
City.
Charles Niemann
62 "I am now assigned as director of CARE's developing
program in Haiti for the next three years or so - we
enjoy this assignment very much and hope that more
Thunderbirds will be coming our way," writes Chris Scheiffele.
... Gregory Suverkrup, Matson Navigation Company's manager
of market development, authored an article, "Matson Blends
Men and Machines to Hold Cargo Claims to a Minimum" in the
trade publication TRAFFIC WORLD.. Charles Niemann, for­merly
director of CARE's Jordan program, is now a director in
India. The Niemanns are living in New Delhi. .. Carlos Cortes
was promoted to professor of history and named winner of the
Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of California,
Riverside. He has also published two new books .... Michael
Clarey has advised us of an assignment in Australia with Mor­gan
Guaranty Trust Co. as their deputy representative there.
... After 121/2 years overseas, the John R. Taylor fami Iy is
now living in New York where John is business development
manager for AFIA .... John Novotny is di rector of the Ken­tucky
Department of Commerce's new international office in
Brussels, Belgium.
6 3 Account manager with special responsibility for manu­facturing
electrical machinery, rubber and plastics,
shoes and entertainment industries in Mexico is Dan
Van Gelder's job with Citibank in Mexico City. He lives in
Cuernavaca .... William Ball from Racine, Wisconsin, writes,
"Just returned from two weeks at J. I. Case in Brazil providing
purchasing assistance for development of the product national­ization
program and new plant in Sorrocaba." ... Mary Eliza­beth
Wood, foreign languages professor at Ball State University,
has authored the book, French Imprint on the Heart of
America, published last July .... Philip Miller is now with
Montgomery Ward in California as a Wardfleet operating man­ager.
He feels that the new Bay Area Alumni Placement Center
is a great idea .... Bruce Strong is new director of the U.S.
Trade Center in Paris, probably through June, 1978, then re­turning
to an assignment in the Bureau of International Com­merce,
Washington, D.C. . .. After 6 1/2 years in latin America,
the Larry Greene family has moved to Massachusetts where he
is working for Digital Equipment Corporation as personnel
manager .... Richard Puig is now general manager of a group
of companies involved in the cotton ginning and planting seed
process business in Guatemala .... The Hal Alcotts are new in
the Miami, Florida area, where Hal is general manager-Western
Hemisphere for Airco Welding Products-International. Mike
R. Smith is with C. ITOH as sales manager/consultant in Port­land,
Oregon.
64 After his five-year assignment in Hong Kong as the
marketing director for Monsanto Textile Co. - Asia Pa­cific,
John Tung and Bobby are living in Connecticut.
John works out of the New York City office and is responsible
for Africa, the Middle East and latin America .... Kirt Hart is
district sales representative - central region for FIAT-ALLIS ....
Richard Aguirre reports that all is going well for him with
REPRENSE, South Africa .... After many years of working with
latin America, Luis Pi-Sunyer is now responsible for business
development and account servicing efforts for Europe and
Africa for Export Credit Corporation.
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6 5 D. Whisman has been with Bechtel constructing a
water inspection project for Aramco in Saudi Arabia
the past year and a half .... Vincent Carter is work­ing
in Costa Rica with a subsidiary of C & S Bank of Atlanta
where He often sees Diego Veitia and Mike Santellanes '60.
Niles Helmboldt is President of Equator Bank ltd. in Hart­ford,
Connecticut, whi Ie Douglas Montgomery is Vice President
of this investment banking partnership.
66 "Have purchased my own air freight authority,"
writes Leslie Shearer. "Have also been active in ship­ping
U.S. livestock products abroad such as Holstein
cattle and pure-bred hogs." . . . Olay Leithe, formerly with
Koehring Overseas Corporation, is now with the P + H Com­pany,
still remaining in South Africa .... Noel Lang is
district representative for Caterpillar in Recife, Brazil. He and
Robert Norfleet '66 met in Sao Paulo and "had a very nice chat
to remember old times." ... John Turner and wife Hanne Lore
are back in Topeka, still with the American International Under­writers
Co., after they were ordered to leave Beirut, lebanon,
because of the worsening military situation .... Oliver Ford
has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Mass­achusetts
Society of Professors at the University of lowell ....
Recently relocated to l. F. Rothschild & Co. in San Francisco is
Tallentyre Fletcher. He manages conservative option writing
accounts for investors and sets up profit sharing funds for
corporations. .. Robert Moore is personal services opera­tions
manager of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service at
Ft. Jackson, South Carolina .... As a freelance writer/photog­rapher
in Madrid, Spain, C. Michael Bennis is planning to
complete his first novel this fall.
67 April 1976, the Gary Smith family moved from Seattle
to Eugene, Oregon, where Gary became branch man­ager
of Cummings Diesel. ... Steve Ward is chairman
of Tradas, ltd. (Thailand). The company is chiefly involved with
the marketing and exporting of tapioca .... Dean Ross runs the
Edge Act Corporation (with Citibank) in los Angeles. . . .
Thomas N. Tenegg works for Bank of America, along with John
Adams '74 and Mike Suarez '73 .... Robert Kisner is engineer­ing
manager for rotating memory products division of General
Instruments Corporation in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico .... David
R. Lawrence reports being transferred to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
as branch manager of the American International Group ....
Michael Gross has become a member of the firm of Magids and
White ,Inc., Attorneys at law.
Sam Butler Tim Walker
6 8 Cynthia Branton Burski and Bob volunteered to work
with CARE for ten days after the Guatemala earth­quake,
and Bob worked the next six months building
temporary and permanent structures for CARE, whi Ie Cynthia
ran the finca .... John Lockwood, Jr. is director of export for
Dad's Root Beer Company in Chicago .... Phil Milburn is in­structing
English at the Defense language Institute, lackland
AFB, Texas, and Spanish to elementary teachers for Berlitz .
Ken Skuse is in Hong Kong with Marine Midland .... "Self­employed
as Smith Imports. Distributing handicrafts from latin
America. Anyone interested in establishing marketing contact
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please contact me ... ," writes Charles Smith from Sackett
Road, Westfield, Massachusetts, 01085. . . . Jeffrey Lockwood
is a partner in the Waite & lockwood Company, an export man­agement
firm marketing building materials throughout the Far
East and probably Saudi Arabia .... Sam J. Butler has assumed
new duties as assistant vice president and manager of the
Arizona Bank, Nogales office ... . Philip O. Miller has been
promoted to assistant vice president in the metropolitan depart­ment
at the First National Bank of Miami. ... Dave Bell has
been named an international officer for FCIA in San Francisco.
... Timothy Walker is inventory manager over international
marketing services for the National Cash Register Company.
69 Richard Koehler is general manager - Jakarta office for
Kellogg Overseas Corporation. . . . An up-date on
Robert Kearns III: Puerto Rico with Chase Manhattan
Bank; New York City with Citibank as assistant vice preSident,
london with Marine Midland as vice president; Greenwich,
Connecticut with William Kent and Company (investment bank­ing
and financial consulting), traveling the Middle East .... "I
am replacing John Gilbaugh '68, who has been promoted to
assistant manager of our Miami Edge Act office," comments
Melville Brown II, who has been named assistant representative
for Wells Fargo Bank in Mexico .... Meg Goetz spent Summer
'75 as part of a team vaccinating against tuberculosis in Ecuador
and Summer '76 was a medical volunteer for the Direct Relief
Foundation in Guatemala ... . Suzanne Black is manager of
Allied Bank International in Nassau, Bahamas . . . . Wesley Kruse
has sold $1,000,000 worth of real estate this past year, while
keeping busy being past president of the,. Southern California
Alumni Association .... Jim Blaisdell and family are now in
Quito, where he is assistant manager-credit for Bank of
America . . . . John Ives, resident vice-president of the First
Arabian Corporation, reports that Harry Cockrell '74 is also in
Saudi Arabia with the National Commercial Bank, and Roy Dix
'73 with the Saudi Investment Bank .... Kurn Fredrick Kruger
is now with Grove International Corporation, the world's largest
manufacturer of hydraulic cranes as district manager in Africq.
. . . William G. Dodge Jr. is domestic wholesale manager of
McWayne Marine Supply, ltd., in Honolulu . ... As district
manager for J . I. Case of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal,
and Sri lanka, Fred Bloom has relocated to Singapore. His new
address is: c/o J. I. Case Co., 12-C Yen San Bldg ., 268 Orchard
Rd., Singapore - 9 .... Carlos Dobbins Griffin has moved to
Hong Kong and is delighted there being a teacher ... . Peter
Cover is with the staff of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for International Affairs .... Peter McClean has been elected
vice president and general manager of Connecticut Bank Inter­national
and vice president of the Connecticut Bank and Trust
Co .... M. Lo Locher has started his own import-export opera­tion
in Duesseldorf, Germany, where he hopes to see other
alumni to help organize a German get-together, along with
Paul Reimann . ... Armund Schoen, Jr. is with First National
Bank of Chicago in Panama .... Sanford J. Stone spent two
weeks at summer camp with the Puerto Rico Air National Guard
at Rhein/Main Air Force Base in Frankfurt, Germany.
James Hagan
70 Gary E. Dilley has been appointed vice president of
the Bank of California'an international division, Tokyo
office ... . Jim Hagan moved to Montreal, Canada,
April 1976 .... "Was recently transferred to london with re-sponsibility
for the COMECON countries," writes Frank Graebner
with Security Pacific National Bank .... From Gary Gunderson:
"The soft machines continue to receive better acceptance na­tionally!
Our product is original and the concept sometimes
difficult to sell." ... Kenneth Summers is a Beverly Hills
Hollywood region sales representative for the office leasing
division of Grubb and Ellis Company .... Wayne Fulcher re­ports
that he has left his job with Benton and Bowles Adver­tising
Inc. Canada to join Jennings and Thompson Advertising
as an account supervisor for APS and Cudahy .... Kenneth
Young has been appointed as assistant to the president of the
Toy Division at Ideal Toy Corporation in New York City ....
Georgia Nachtman is now a public affairs officer for the
Canadian Consulate in Dallas, Texas .... Writes Art Kelley,
"Will establish the first Sperry Flight Systems office in South
America." He will be working out of Sao Paulo, Brazil. ... As
manager of la Bodega Exportadora Cia ltda. in Quito, Ecuador,
John Ortman exports hand-made goods to the U.S., France,
Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Canada . ... Howard Spiegleman
and Barbara are back in the States and are very anxious to get
reacquainted with their T-Bird friends in the Alexandria, Vir­ginia
area .... Henry Avalos is now in the Canal Zone, working
for H. S. Bao as an international specialist .... Steven Chapman
is employed by Cincinnati Milacron in the international finance
area as financial manager of export financing subsidiary ....
Michael Ridgeway has opened a law office in San Diego, Cali­fornia
.... Bill Gage is living in Seattle, Washington and is
teaching youngsters to swim. He "would like to thank all of the
Thunderbird classmates and staff members who helped him get
back on the road after his motorcycle accident in 1969." . . .
After completing his first year in Caracas, Wayne Pulver has
been heading up Citibank's Agribusiness department .. . . Gary
Counts is with MidAmerica Federal Savings & Loan Association
in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he is in charge of the branch network
and the savings department .... Hardy Thomsik is now with
Ralph Parsons Company in Iran .... The Young Woman of
America Award was presented to Geraldine Gurley Lamonica,
who is currently working with Bank of America in Houston,
Texas.. William Heineken is with Ogilvy and Mather in
New York .
Thomas J. Hayes
71 Dresser Industries promoted Hal Baker to market direc­tor-
Latin America for their mining service and equip­ment
group. He and Barbara will live in Rio de Janeiro
after a temporary assignment to Dallas .... Gene Castle is a
chief in the foreign military sales division-Army International
Logistic Command, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania .... Warren
Brainard-Smith is region manager, Puerto Rico, for scientific
products division of American Hospital Supply Corporation ....
Robert Hill has been named manager of Chase Manhattan
Bank's corporate banking department in New York City ....
Senior lending officer with the Bank of America's Los Angeles
international banking office is Tom Cleveland's new title ....
Advertising manager for Dr. Pepper Company in Dallas, Texas
is Dave Milton's new position .... Doug Balatti is the Chevrolet­Bu
ick dealer in Dos Palos, California .. . . Formerly with ARMCO
in South Africa, William W. Brown is now with ARMCO in Sao
Paulo, Brazil. ... Jack D. Taylor has been promoted to deputy
group managing d irector for Diversey Lim ited in England and
wi II also be responsible for Diversey's operations in South and
East Africa .... Jon Cates reports that he is manager- Far East
marketing for Varian Associates. Living near him in Singapore
are John Santana and wife Mary, Bill Nash and wife Barbara,
and Judd Kinne .... As part of the international education
group from Memphis State University, Thomas Dent visited the
People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Japan . .. . It has
been reported that in September Bill Walsh moved to Rome as
the sales representative for Caterpi liar, covering Yugoslavia and
Italy .... Aloysio Vasconcellos is a legal consultant for the
Brazilian navy and in international finance for Embratel, the
Brazilian telecommunications company .... Alyton Vasconcellos
is the executive vice president for Bra zilian operations of Inter­national
Systems and Controls, an American company with
headquarters in Houston, Texas .. .. Writes Fred Krage, execu­tive
officer of Peace Corps in Colombia, "I really enjoy the job
as administrator." He plans on being back in Washington, D.C.,
January, 1977 .... Jon Dwinell and Mary are back in Washing­ton
where he bought a franchise for General Business Services
which offers accounting and tax service to small businesses.
.. . Thomas Hayes has been appointed to the newly created
post of international sales manager for latin America for the
retail food division of The R. T. French Company .... After
resigning from AFIA, Steven Tiberg is in los Angeles working
for Western Professional liability Agencies, Inc.
Michael J. Marchese
72 Traveling Susy Sagy visited with Dennis Orio '71 and
Chuck Oppenheim in Rio de Janeiro. She reports
Christina Topolous and Rudy Zepeda as Caracas vis­itors;
Susan Corcoran and Jim Shoultz and Diane as residents.
Susy has gone back to advertising and is with Publicidad
Siboney which has offices in Central America, the Caribbean
and Brazil. ... From Michael Clennan: "After spending four­teen
months in Central America and the Caribbean, I was as­signed
to Europe last year, to continue performing operational
and financial audits of Texaco subsidiaries. Each takes about
four months, and so far I have seen England, Sweden and
Belgium." ... William Barkell's Sofia, Bulgaria U.S. Foreign
Service assignment ended August 1976, and he was awaiting
word of his next assignment .... J . N. Piznak recently visited
with the Len Holzworths '70 and the Mac Messengers in Bonn.
J . N. is working with American Express Travel as manager of
administration and control in Frankfurt, Germany .. .. Edward
Auble was recently named Caribbean regional manager for
personal accident insurance for A.I.G. companies and would be
happy to hear from anyone living or visiting in the area ....
From Catherine Ingram: "I am the account executive assigned
to the Hills Brothers Coffee account with Doyle Dane Bernbach
Advertising Company here in los Angeles . .. and loving it."
... Bill Davis has recently been promoted to district manager
for Fotomat for upstate New York . He has also taught "Sales
Management" at a local Buffalo college .... David Koepke is
consumer sales representative for McNei I laboratories, Incorpo­rated-
midwest districts and has completed the company's basic
consumer education program at the Fort Washington, Pennsy l­vania
home office facility .. .. Charles E. G. Lloyd, Jr. is with
the marketing department of Clairol Incorporated .... Says
Paul Hammerstad, with Pacific Architects and Engineers Inter­national
in Japan, "Hardly a week goes by without running into
aT-Birder." . .. Martin Nodilo is the assistant to the president
of Hy-Gain Electronics Corporation in lincoln, Nebraska. . .
Richard Kohn has been promoted to executive vice president of
EFM lease Funding, Inc., and senior vice president of the par-
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ent, Equipment Finance and Management Company, in San
Francisco, California .. .. Charles W. Roberts is now the market
planning manager for the international group of American
Hospital Supply Corporation .... From J . Mamadee Dorbor: "I
became group manager for American International Group for
liberia and Sierra leone, responsible for all group operations
in these two countries." ... Russ Jaffe has been promoted to
international credit-finance manager for Groves Manufacturing,
Shady Grove, Pennsylvania . .. . David Anderson is president
of Amdex Corporation in Provo, Utah .... As an international
officer with Union Trust Company, Michael Marchese is area
loan officer for the Asia-Pacific region, and international liaison
officer for the Danbury region of Connecticut .... Dan Bohart
and linda are currently living in the Kingdom of Tonga, in the
tropical South Pacific, where Dan is serving as assistant man­ager-
operations at the Bank of Tonga and overseas representa­tive
for Bank of Hawaii ... . Shirazali Peera operates an African
and Oriental import business in Scottsdale, Arizona called
Africana International Imports, Inc. ... Dennis Oshiro has been
promoted to international officer of First Hawaiian Bank in
Honolulu, Hawaii .... Tim Morrissey is Guayaquil branch
manager for AFIA. ... In Blantyre, Malawi, John Cullison is
with the Commercial Bank of Malawi. ... As a promotional
writer with American Plywood Association, Paul Hirsh is in the
Information Services Division.
7 3 "Enjoy my position in the market research department
of the Douglas Aircraft Company," writes Claxton
Lovin, Jr. from California. "Recently have had the
opportunity to make business trips to various airlines in Europe.
In our department are two other T-Birds - Charles Carter '62
and David McCaughey '62." . . . Gunter Koehkg is director of
Middle East sales for Air Operations International, in Bahrain,
Arabian Gulf. Major projects: aviation-communication support
of airlines, private and corporate institutions as well as gov­ernments
. ... John Willyard writes, "I was recently transferred
from New York City to Milwaukee and promoted to financial
analyst with Foreign Credit Insurance Association. We really
enjoy Milwaukee and would like to hear from any T-Birds living
in the area or ones just passing through." . .. Hoyet Wilson,
Dallas, Texas, passed the CPA exam in May, 1975 .... Project
development manager for Vetco Overseas limited is Jim Load­man's
new job in England. His main area of responsibility is
the development of new companies and projects throughout
Africa . . .. CPA Thomas Harvey is still with Rossman & Com­pany,
Sacramento . ... Mike Smith is in South Africa with
AirResearch ... . Mary Ann Hooker reports that husband Russ
has been traveling quite a bit with Esso-Standard Oil, and has
been "keeping the camera and charge cards busy!" She also
reports that Ramon Urbano and Karen '69 were recently trans­ferred
to San Salvador by Cargill and are their neighbors ....
Rod J. Miller has been appointed as assistant professor at the
California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, California .... "I am
working as an international banking representative at First City
National Bank in Houston ," reports B. Kent Woodard. He says
other T-Birds working with him are Rudy Zepeda '72, Fred L.
Bollerer '67, Rich B. Ollett '74, and Tony Biocchi '50 .... Rod
Boren is with Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis,
Minnesota .... Sam Murugasu was transferred to Singapore as
special representative for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com­merce
and reported meeting Keith Bovetti '7S there. They plan
a Singapore alumni get-together .. . . last Spring, Jim Hender­son
was a guest speaker for the activities of the Institute for
Internation al Studies and Training (liST). He spoke on American
attitudes within Japanese firms located in the U.S. Previously
with Toyota Motor Sales, he is now international manager for
ARA Manufacturing Company in Grand Prairie, Texas. His job
involves travel to Europe, the Middle East and the Orient ....
Jim Quigley is also with ARA in Grand Prairie ... . Gerald Van
Horn is marketing manager with American Cyanamid in Mexico .
. . . After leaving Marine Midland Bank, John B. Hess, Jr. joined
American Express International Banking Corporation and is
heading the latin American division that comprises Brazil, Ar­gentina,
Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile .... George De Bakey
is manager of administration and planning for the Europe!
Africa division of Collins/ Rockwell International in london ,
England. He has recently been visited by fellow T-Birds Juergen
Strasser, Koos Groot, Dorothy Reed, and Wacef Ghali '74.
74 Pascal Cornille reports seeing in Paris: Jim Clement
'73 Fleban Toulemonde '73 and Elienne Igersheim.
.. ~ Bernie Wegert is with Sterling Drug - international
division in New York City ... . ''I'm really enjoying my job,"
writes Bruce Marks with Teledyne Monarch in Ohio. He made a
twelve-week trip to Australia, the South Pacific and South
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James Dodson John Sandor Andrea Gregory
America .... Andrea Gregory has been promoted from credit
analyst to credit officer in Wells Fargo Bank's San Francisco­based
international division .... With Bechtel on the Alaska
Pipeline project are Dave Wold, administrative assistant in the
camps' supervisors office, R & R replacement for the traffic ad­ministrators
in the camps, and creator of the transportation
department's newsletter; Jack Kitchen '73, in the P.O.L. depart­ment;
Hal Gunn '71, transportation administrator; and Hal
Walker '73 and Rick Cooley '73 in the equipment department.
... After having been program manager for Super Market
Institute in Chicago, Bernie Murphy was named director of
stores in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland for
Chico Dairy Company .... John Rosselli is western regional
sales manager with PACE Electronics. He enjoys living in South­ern
California .... Hugh Warren is an assistant to the regional
underwriting managers for AFIA Worldwide Insurance in Bel­gium
.... Marikay Lee reports that she is working as an inter­national
auditor with the Sherwin-Williams Company in Cleve­land
.... Writes Ki-Tae Myung, who has established an export­ing
and importing company in Seoul, Korea, "I'd better do
business with Thunderbirds if possible." ... Larry Goetzinger
has accepted employment with the International Multifoods
Corporation of Minneapolis - audit services department. He will
be traveling to Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, and Canada in the
near future .... Director of marketing for Oratec dental division
of American Hospital Supply Corporation is Dennis Sokol's title.
... Mark Harrison is international business analyst for Collins
Radio - Rockwell International, in Richardson, Texas .... The
new traffic manager of Ingram Barge Company, a marine trans­portation
and pipeline construction company in Louisiana, is
James Farley .... Susan Lentz is teaching fine arts management
and dance for the stage at Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois.
Stephen Bartley has joined Facings of America, Inc., a dis­tributor
of ceramic tile and other building facings products ....
James Dodson has been named manager of international sales
for C-E Bauer, a division of the process equipment group - Com­bustion
Engineering, Inc., in Springfield, Ohio .... Bob Par­menson
and Linda are in the clothing and jewelry business and
manage The Sand Castle, a store in Port Aransas, Texas ....
Jeff Anderson is branch manager of the Texgas Corporation in
St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Patricia Vacek Anderson is assistant
to the vice president of the Webway Company, also in St.
Cloud .... Writes Greg Thorpe, who is working for E. F. Hutton
& Company in Newport Beach, California, "would like to hear
from or offer accommodation to other T-Birds passing through
or staying here." ... Susan Harris works for SOAP, a manufac­turer
of cattle feed oil and coconut oil in Richman, California.
The corporate comptroller for Crown Pacific in Yokohama is
Daniel J. Randall .... Stanley Goldsmith is an offshore drilling
contractor with Global Marine, Inc., in Los Angeles. He reported
running into Jim Harlson and John Grundstad in Chicago .. ..
John Sandor has been appointed manager, administrative sales
staff, for Philip Morris in New York .... Former assistant to
Berger Erickson at AGSIM, Mary McMunn is working for North­west
Airlines in their international transportation regulations
department. She is the liaison between Northwest Airlines and
the u.S. immigration and customs departments .... Mike Crotty
is planning a group trip to Colombia and invites other Thun­derbirds
to join him for a reunion in Santa Marta. If interested,
contact him at 212-929-4100 or 212-724-8500. Recently, Mike
left international sales with S. Twitchell/ Foote and Jenks
(flavors and fragrances) of Camden, New Jersey .... Besides
teaching introductory marketing courses for Northwest Council
of Colleges' Mexico Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, Joseph
Salter, Jr. also acts as their transportation manager .... In West
Germany, Rebecca Frohmayer is assistant accountant for Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell & Company, and Heinz Frohmayer is financial
director with International Scientific Instruments .... Foreign
Service Officer Davis Hamill and Itzel are going to Belgrade,
Yugoslavia with the U.S. Department of State. . . . Michael
Summers is teaching in the marketing department at the Amer­ican
College in Lucerne, Switzerland .... David Deming is with
Paper Converting Machine Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
· . . Ray Burrus is in Hong Kong with Caterpillar Far East, Ltd.
· .. Attorney Andrew Hull is working in Phoenix, Arizona ....
As part of his job with the Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade
in Mexico City, Douglas Funk flies to various cities around
Mexico to give lectures and consultations in aspects of foreign
trade .... The Young Woman of America Award has been
presented to Julie Houk, with William Wrigley Company in
Chicago; Barbara Hoose, with Bank of America in San Francisco;
and Paulette Braune Lang, with Bank of America in Culver City.
· .. Alfred Pick is a sales representative for Digital Equipment
Corporation in Dallas, Texas .... Merle Else is a GTE A.E. rep­resentative
in the Philippines.
7 5 Rod Taylor is manager of the Mississippi Marketing
Council's international trade division in New Orleans.
. . . Elizabeth Terry Byrnes is an assistant account
executive with Benton and Bowles in New York City .... Brian
Snowden is budget and account analyst - special· assistant for
Spanish-speaking credit unions, with National Credit Union
Administration, Washington, D.C .... Kohei Ogawa is in the
overseas project department of Kikkoman, Chiba-Ken, Japan.
He will move to the Tokyo branch office after training ....
Robert August is director of marketing with Tollin-Graboyes
Company, Philadelphia builder-developers. He and Penny re­port
being in active contact with Lucien Geismar in Paris, James
Savage in Philadelphia and Michael Wilson and Sally in Mt.
Vernon, Illinois .. . . "Am working with Harlow and Jones, Ltd.
of London as the head of the non-ferrous metal trading division
and am doing much traveling," writes Andrew Lubin from
Stamford, Connecticut .. . . "I am currently employed by the
L. B. Foster Company in Houston, Texas. My position is in inter­national
sales with additional responsibilities for new market
development and agent network establishment," from Alan
Adamek .... Arif Hafiz is training with RIDGID International for
a mid-East assignment. He reports that Jim Leiby is training for
the Far East and Tariq Baiwa has a Middle East assignment ....
"After completing my training in Minneapolis, I've been as­signed
to Portland, Oregon as a junior merchant in Cargill's
commodity marketing division. My assignment is challenging
and exciting ... ", writes Jim Paloma. He has seen George Van
Wagininger and Dave Hansen '59 in Portland .... Grain mer­chandiser
Bruce Lamarche reports that "Continental Grain is
absolutely Great!" He has been transferred from Paris to Orinda,
California. He has seen Hans Jany and Thierry Rouvier in Paris,
Jorge Verduzco in New York City, Cynthia Leidner in Phil­adelphia,
Terry Byrnes '72 in Palo Alto, Judith Merray '76 in
Carmel, Drew Taylor in Miami, and Hidefumi Ishida in Spain.
He works in close contact with Enrique Humbert, Suzan Hecker,
Dave Higgins and Jorge Verduzco at Continental. ... "The job
search took a long time, but it paid off ... very happy to be
with such a dynamic and progressive organization (Xerox),"
writes Tony Salcedo. "Training is second to none, and rewards
are high. l:ots of room for advancement; should be considered
by all T-Birds. Would like to hear from former graduates."
Sean Murphy as financial analyst-accountant with Saloman/
North America, Inc. works with the company's distributors in
Canada and the U.S. . . . Paolo Colombi is a management
trainee with the Schweitzer division of Kimberly-Clark; Charles
Irion is national marketing director for I. A. Sales of California;
Robert Burnquist is a trainee in the international banking pro­gram
with United California Bank; Vickie Kludjian is marketing
director and creative consultant, Normart Advertising, Fresno;
Christopher Hensien is associate auditor with Owens-Illinois;
Scott Johnson is sales representative for the building service
trades with 3M, Los Angeles; Michael Allen is a management
trainee with Swift-Train Company (subsidiary of American
Steel), Corpus Christi; Kiyoto Yonamine is the export manager
for Takachiho International in Los Angeles; Marilyn Oetjen
Philipp is now working for Sony in Japan .... The Hamberger
Hamlet restaurant in Hollywood plans international expansion
within the next few years, writes their assistant manager George
Fronske .... James Styer, program specialist with Church World
Service, Latin Ameria department, offers his assistance to any
T-Bird who would be interested in working for an organization
such as CWS .... The National Bank of North Americ

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IIA LOOK BACKWARDII
AND
IIA LOOK FORWARDII
G. Clarke Bean
The words "vision" and "foresight" are often used too
freely, but I honestly feel that Major General Barton K.
Yount had an exceptionally acute view of the future
when he decided that international trade would become
such a major part of our lives and founded what was
then the American Institute for Foreign Trade in 1946.
I first became aware of the School when I came to
Phoenix in 1947 in search of employment, having de­cided
to leave the New York area because of my health.
Among several letters of introduction, I had one to Finley
Peter Dunn, Jr. at the School.
The following year, my brother, John Bean, having re­cently
graduated from Amherst after a stint in the service
during World War II, enrolled as a student in the School's
second year. So, you can see I have been acquainted with
Thunderbird for quite a long time, although my active
involvement on the board started in 1972.
I trust and believe that General Yount would be thrilled
by the School's present strength and reputation. Its stature
throughout the United States and the world is unques­tioned,
and its unique character, which combines prag­matism
with expertise, places it alone among accredited
graduate schools of management.
The board and the administration have recently been
working hard on reviewing the makeup and organization
of the board so that it may be of greatest support and
strength to the future of the School. We are delighted
that one of its highest priorities will be an upgrading of
the physical plant as well as continued improvement of
the academic level. Construction will start soon on dor­mitories,
signaling the beginning of a major move for­ward
for the American Graduate School of International
Management.
Your board is dedicated to quality in the caliber of the
student body, the faculty and the administration . Most of
all, we are concerned with the caliber of our product­the
education which our graduates have received. We are
proud of our record in the past, but we think it can be
improved in the future. Your support as alumni will be a
major factor in reaching these goals.
G. CLARKE BEAN
THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni publication of the American Graduate School of Interna­tional
Management) is published in the Fall-Winter and Spring-Summer of each year.
Editor: DIANE CONNELLY '56
Chief Photographer: NOEL FORD
Assistant Editor: CHRIS GORSLINE
Alumni (Office) Assistant: THOMAS J. BEATTY '77
Cover: Thunderbird Invitational Balloon Race, November 20-21, 1976
NOEL FORD CHRIS GORSLINE THOMAS J. BEATTY '77 DIANE CONNELLY '56
The
Presiden~' 5
We are celebrating our thirtieth year and, frankly, there's
a lot to celebrate. Since 1946 we have graduated over
10,000 students who are now performing ably in over
100 countries around the globe. The School continues to
operate in the black, which is quite a feat for a small,
private school in Arizona which started with a deactivated
Air Force base and borrowed funds.
As we look ahead we have two major goals. First of all,
we want to translate the ever-increasing inquiries and
applications into tighter admission standards. We want a
small (750), highly selective, private graduate school. We
are getting close to it. We now require a 3.0 or B average
for admission and require all applicants to take the
Graduate Management Admission Test. We want a mix of
25% foreign students, 20% women, and experienced,
more mature Americans.
Message
Secondly, we want to rebuild the campus starting with
new residence halls, a new classroom auditorium com­plex,
and faculty offices. We're starting two new resi­dence
halls this year. We want to retain the southwestern
architecture and casual informality.
We are making great strides in achieving both of these
major long-range goals.
WilLIAM VORIS
President
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LETTERS
IITERIATIDIAL
MAIAGEMEIT
Commemorating thirty years of our school's existence,
this THUNDERBIRD is "A Look Backward - A Look For­ward"
issue. I requested statements from key adminis­trators
as to where they see us now as an institution as
compared with where we have been.
G. Clarke Bean, Chairman of the Board of Directors, offers
an overview; William Voris, President of AGSIM, adds
specifics; Robert L. Gulick gives Admissions' viewpoint;
M. David Merchant writes of plans, grants and the Thun­derbird
Fund for Development and Public Affairs; Aca­demic
Dean Marshall Geer III states our academic philos­ophy;
Robert J. McMahon spells out World Business'
plans to strengthen that department's offerings; Jorge
Valdevieso and Frank R. Jackie explain the unique back­ground
of our Modern Languages Department; Joaquin
M. Duarte, Jr. acknowledges the brilliant professors who
have comprised the International Studies Department.
As a change of pace, alumnus-in-residence Tom Beatty
examines AGSIM's assistantship program and gives his
insight on being the Alumni Office's "own."
The list of Alumni Resource Persons, ready and willing to
help you world-wide, continues to grow.
Alumni associations continue to expand and strengthen,
offering fellowship and service. They consider how to
spread our name - to prospective outstanding students
(Mexico's specialty) and to internationally oriented com­panies
(Los Angeles and New York). They concern them­selves
with finding jobs for fellow Thunderbirds (Houston
and San Francisco). They seek to develop AGSIM's pro­fessional
continued education programs for their mem­bers
and friends (Arizona). They offer a friendly and
helpful peer group far from "home" (Tokyo and Tehran).
Support your School's goals and enjoy other T-Birds
wherever you may be. Check the association contact
name nearest you and contact this person. Or write me
how to establish an association where you are now.
See the return envelope for special offer through your
Alumni Office:
"TWIPs" are in - to Switzerland and Mexico at special
alumni rates.
The price on our beautiful Thunderbird ring is at an
all-time low.
You can buy a newly-designed diploma for $5 from
from Admissions and Records.
Alumni-in-Residence offer you a free first issue of
Thunderbird Research International.
Please write me if there is any specific way this office
can serve you or any statement you would like to make
about Thunderbird. Plaudit or brickbat, I'll pass it on.
Our common goal is the improvement of our School.
DIANE CONNELLY
Editor
IITERIATIDIAL
MAIAGEMEIT
T-Bird graduates' worlds of work are becoming as diverse as
the graduates themselves. As winner of a competitive essay
contest sponsored by the Circumnavigators, an organization
comprised of distinguished international travelers, student
ELEANOR HAMRIC '76 was awarded a trip around the world.
Since her graduation last May, Eleanor has been researching
her winning essay topic, "The Role of Women in The World
Today," by interviewing women in many countries.
Just thought I'd drop you a line during my voyage! I was
the guest of PHIL BLAISDELL 70 in his beautiful Repulse
Bay apartment in Hong Kong. We had never met before,
but in true T-Bird style he offered me his home and
friends during my stay there!
So far, my trip has taken me to Japan, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and Singapore, where I was the guest of KEITH
BOVETTI 75 and his lovely Japanese wife, Kyoko. We
all agreed that T-Bird was one of the great experiences
of our lives, and Phil and I (maybe) have talked two
up-and-coming retirees to lecture at school!
Diane, I can't tell you how great it is to be traveling
alone around the world and arrive in an unknown place,
whip out my T-Bird address list, and have an "instant"
colleague and most probably friend to welcome me.
From Singapore I sailed to Bali on a short 5-day cruise,
and spent a week in Bali. Then on to Bangkok and Cal­cutta
and Katmandu and Calcutta and Delhi. From India
I go on to Istanbul, and then into USSR for two weeks!!
I come out in Scandinavia, "Iightly" across Europe, and
back into the USA by Christmas.
I have been most fortunate in my research project­through
the SOROPTIMIST CLUBS in Japan (a lady named
Dottie Kissinger is the President!); YWCA in Taipei; per­sonal
contacts in Hong Kong; a women's leader in Singa­pore.
While it's too early to draw any general or specific
conclusions yet, I can assure you that the women in Asia
are positive and very well organized. It is a movement
that is generally for the educated elite, but seems to be
starting off in each country at a good grass-roots level.
They are practical and determined and to-the-point, and
seem to be making great strides.
All the best to you and T-Bird.
Ciao,
ELEANOR HAMRIC 76
Thirty Years And Now?
As Mabel and I stroll across the campus these days, I'm
reminded of the first time I saw the campus on July 5,
1946. As we approached the campus on that occasion,
after having traveled for what seemed miles through
uninhabited desert, we spotted four hangars rising from
the desert floor surrounded by a group of dusty, cob­webbed,
one-story buildings. The landscaping, what
there was of it, appeared parched and unattended. The
grass was knee high and bone dry. This was to be the
birthplace of one of the most incredible ideas in higher
education.
Today, by contrast, the campus looks manicured. Many
of the old buildings are still used, but they are sur­rounded
by new structures, particularly in the area sur­rounding
the facultly building (control tower). The first
of these, built in 1965, is a residence hall for fifty mar­ried
couples. (Yes, we decided it was time to move the
married couples out from the center of the campus, from
the center of our single men's housing area .) This build­ing,
made possible by a loan from the Valley Bank, is
called East Apartments.
The second building in this area is the new Library built
in 1970 at a cost of $500,000, all gifts and grants from
members of the Board of Directors with help from the
AMA and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The
funds for this project were pledged and all paid within a
period of 18 months. Built to provide 15,000 square feet
of space for library purposes, this was deemed larger
than necessary at that time, and 5,000 square feet, one­third
of the building, was sealed off to provide for the
needs of our placement and alumni functions. Today the
library badly needs that additional 5,000 square feet.
Satisfying this need is currently our number one priority,
and plans are in the making to make it possible to move
these two functions to new quarters.
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The last building in this area is another residence com­plex
for 50 married students or 100 single students. This
project was made possible by a direct loan from the
Federal Government for $374,000 at 3% interest and a
term of 40 years. This complex of four two-story build­ings
grouped around a central court and named West
Apartments, is currently our best housing facility and is
located directly across the road from Apartment 8 in the
Hangar Leanto.
Apartment 8, by the way, is where the Ericksons lived
for 18 years before moving to the south end of the
campus into our faculty housing complex. This faculty
housing area, sometimes referred to as the "high rent
district," is composed of 12 individual homes of 4, 3, 2,
and 1-bedroom variations. These homes were bui It with
the proceeds from mortgages obtained on each individual
home - nine of them in 1964 and three in 1970 - and
all are self-liquidating from the proceeds of the rental
income.
They have served admirably as housing for a portion of
the faculty, particularly as interim housing, until new
faculty are able to find permanent homes in the sur­rounding
community.
All of the building projects are tied together by a paving
project which extends from West Apartments on the
south clear across the campus.
Ironically, this was one of the most dramatic improve­ments
achieved in this area of dusty and pot-holed land­scape.
The smooth pavement was an immense improve­ment.
Not an insignificant project, this was accomplished
with a grant from U.S. Steel and with labor and materials
furnished at cost by a local contractor.
Proceeding around the campus in a counter clockwise
fash ion, the next improvement involves what was for
many years the library, has been converted into a small,
but modern, bookstore. With a drop ceiling, recessed
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lights, carpeting on the floor and custom built shelving,
this serves admirably today as the bookstore. In addition
to the standard text books, it provides a variety of other
books, magazines, and other accessory items, all attract­ively
displayed: Adjacent to the bookstore is the post
office with individual boxes for each student. Also, lo­cated
off the post office lobby is an attractive, well­lighted
barbershop. The west end of this building houses
the student activities center with individual offices for
the A.S.L.c. as well as Legal Aid, International Students
Organization, Student Newspaper DAS TOR and other
student organizations.
Passing along the campus fringes, the next building we
come to is the Dining Hall and Student Lounge/Coffee
Shop. These improvements, made with funds provided
through our alumni fund-raising efforts, have been cov­ered
in previous editions of The Thunderbird. However, I
would be remiss in not once again expressing our appre­ciation
for making these improvements possible, in partic­ular,
the Coffee Shop and Student Lounge, which with its
additions of a drop ceiling, oak-paneled walls, new tile
on the floor, recessed lights and, of course, refrigeration
has transformed what was a dark sort of dingy facility
into an attractive, well-lit, comfortable room. So much so,
that it is increasingly difficult to provide necessary seat­ing
for all of our customers.
Next to the Coffee Shop is our Auditorium, refurbished
from years ago with a grant from the Spencer T. and
Ann W. Olin Foundation. Here, again, an old building
has been converted into an attractive room with a drop
ceiling, recessed lights, sound-proofing paneling on the
walls and carpeting on the floor . Refrigeration has also
been provided to make the room comfortable during our
summer sessions, not to mention hot spring and early
fall sessions.
I often wonder, as I sit in this room, how Bill Schurz (Dr.
William Schurz) would have fared in these surroundings,
remembering the difficulty we experienced in trying to
soundproof the room and to provide for adequate sound.
Bill Schurz, as I recall, had a particular disdain for micro­phones
and the like and refused to have anything to do
with audio equipment.
Continuing around the campus, our next improvement is
the front entrance. Prior to the improvement, a visitor's
first view of Thunderbird Campus was a dusty, pot-holed
parking lot leading to a large wooden gate flanked by a
standard military installation-type gate house. A visitor's
impressions of Thunderbird Campus were inevitably in­fluenced
by this first view as he turned in off of 59th
Avenue. This eyesore has been completely erased with
the help of a grant from the Ann Payne Foundation. A
new paved entrance road has been provided with the
entrance and exit drive divided by an attractive island,
landscaped with shrubbery and flowers. South of this
improvement is a concrete sign with an attractive Thun­derbird
at one end. Across the white face of the sign is
the name of the School in bold letters. The gate and gate
house have been removed, and the area adjacent to the
entrance drive has been enhanced with desert land­scaping.
In the little park adjacent to the drive, a small chapel
was erected several years ago with a grant from Mr. and
Mrs. A. P. Tell. The chapel, inspired by student religious
groups on the campus, serves as a place where the New-man
Club and other students can hold meetings.
The last improvement of any size was accomplished this
summer with the remodeling of our "C" Building (C
Dormitory) into a faculty office building for the Interna­tional
Studies faculty. With a drop ceiling, recessed lights,
and tile floors, individual offices were provided for an
expanded I. S. faculty . Included in the improvement was
a conference room and two seminar rooms. Some of you
who remember C-l as the unofficial Campus Pub will
be interested to know that it now is the office for the
Chairman of the International Studies Department, Pro­fessor
Joaquin Duarte.
In retrospect, a great many improvements have been
made - all in the last six or eight years, and almost all
accomplished with the help of gifts and grants by alumni
and friends of the School. None of these projects would
have been possible without such help, and we are grate­ful,
one and all.
But, the best is yet to come. Ground will be broken on
November 1 for two new residence halls. Architectural
drawings are complete, and bids have been called for.
Anticipated cost of these two buildings is $450,000 in­cluding
a necessa ry endowment to provide for mainte­nance.
Funds are on hand for this project. Hopefully,
funds can be found to build two more residence halls in
the very near future.
Working drawings have also been completed for a
Classroom-Auditorium complex. Funds for this project are
included in the Confidence Fund. Hopefully, funds for
this project will be available in the near future. This
complex would provide an auditorium seating 1,000
persons and additionally seven classrooms, each with a
seating capacity between 50 and 70 students.
Hopefully, our development program, with Thunderbird
Fund under the leadership of Joe Klein, class of '47, and
the Confidence Fund under the leadership of Mr. James
Thornton, a member of the Board of Trustees, will make
these and other badly needed projects possible.
Professional Publication
A new project has been initiated by the student body to
bring attention to the unique type of research at AGSIM.
The Thunderbird International will be published this fall,
highlighting topics in international business through re­search
papers, faculty interviews and book reviews.
The publication will be funded by the ASLC and has an
editorial board composed of seven students and two
faculty advisors, Dr. Karl Magyar and Dr. James Mills.
The journal is to be an example of the pragmatic manager
and his training at AGSIM. It is felt that the material in
the journal can be used as guidelines for international
managers in understanding the foreign environment their
business is located.
All three departments of World Business, International
Studies and Modern Languages will contribute to the
Thunderbird International. At least one article will be
printed in a foreign langu3ge with an English translation
alongside. Alumni are invited to submit recent papers
written at AGSIM or material written subsequent to grad­uation
. Please send contributions and ideas to The Thun­derbird
International, ASLC. The journal will be as much
a student publication as an alumni one.
Alumni interested in receiving copies of the first issue,
which will be free, should send a note to the Alumni
Office,
ADMISSIONS AND RECORDS
Dr. Gulick, Dean of Admissions
Variety is the spice of life at Thunderbird . The School is
taking the 982 Fall enrollment in stride, placing three
faculty advisers at the disposal of every student. The
curriculum has been enriched by the inclusion of Cross­Cultural
Communication and Arabic, among other new
offerings.
New Diploma Style
For some time, dissatisfaction had been expressed about
the size and composition of the style used for our di­plomas
and certificates. However, no constructive action
or suggestions were offered to improve the situation
until one of the graduating students of the Fall 1975
class, Vernon Hatch, took the initiative to approach the
Administration for cooperation in organizing a student
election on the issue.
In the ensuing selection process, sixty-one percent of
the student body analyzed eight different diploma styles
and sizes and expressed a consensus. Another student,
Richard Bram, who is experienced in colligraphy, drafted
the style and composition which seemed to reflect both
the students' choice and the requirements of the Admin­istration.
The result is the improved, more legible 8Y2" x
11" diploma which is illustrated.
Alumni wishing to reorder their diplomas or certifications
in this new style can do so by sending their orders to
Miss Minerva Maki, Office of Admissions and Records,
together with a fee of $5.00. Orders will be consolidated
and processed in groups of about fifty. Delivery is esti­mated
at from four to six weeks.
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Dr. John E. Drake is back as Professor of World Business
after spending two years at the American University in
Cairo on a Ford Foundation Grant.
An updating article on the School was placed in the Con­gressional
Record, July 20, 1976, by Senator Barry Gold­water.
Women now comprise 23% of the student body as com­pared
with 18% in fall 1975 and 13% in fall 1974. Inter­national
students numbering 182 come from 52 countries.
Dr. Gulick, Dean of Admissions and Foreign Student Ad­viser,
is Chairman of the Admissions Section of the Na­tional
Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Region II.
The regional meeting will be held this year at the Uni­versity
of Colorado, Boulder, November 4-6.
The attributes that most students have in common are
imagination and a spirit of adventure. They are able to
dream dreams while keeping their feet on the ground.
In August, Mr. John James Arthur, Registrar and College
Relations Officer, went with Mr. Charles Mannel, Place­ment
Director, to the Rocky Mountain College Placement
Association Meeting in Colorado; and, in September, they
attended the Midwest College Placement Association
Meeting in Milwaukee. In November, Mr. Arthur will
participate in a Graduate Management Admission Fair in
New York City, to be followed by a circuit of campus
visits in New York State. He will attend a similar fair in
Los Angeles in December. In October, Dr. Gulick will
visit five campuses in the Central Valley of California. In
November, he and Dr. Issa Peters, Associate Professor of
Arabic and Middle East Studies, will go to Los Angeles to
participate in the convention of the Middle East Studies
Association.
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